Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Obama says Russia must stop meddling in Ukraine for ceasefire to work

US President Barack Obama has said a ceasefire in Ukraine could only be effective if Russia stopped "pretending" it was not active in the conflict and stopped sending troops and weapons into the country.
Ukraine said its president had agreed with Russia's Vladimir Putin on steps towards a "ceasefire regime" in Kiev's conflict with pro-Russian rebels.
However, the Kremlin denied any actual truce deal, sowing confusion on the eve of a NATO summit.


"No realistic political settlement can be achieved if effectively Russia says we are going to continue to send tanks and troops and arms and advisors under the guise of separatists, who are not home grown, and the only possible settlement is if Ukraine cedes its territory or its sovereignty," Mr Obama said.
Russia denies it has sent armour or troops into eastern Ukraine, a largely-Russian speaking area of the country which has seen separatist fighting since April.
Mr Obama arrived in Tallinn earlier on his way to the NATO summit in Wales to reassure the three ex-Soviet Baltic states that NATO would back them up and that the US was committed to protecting the Alliance's eastern frontier.
The three Baltic states - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - are heavily reliant on Russian fuel deliveries and Latvia and Estonia have very large Russian-speaking minorities.
Under the NATO treaty, an attack on any individual NATO state would be treated as an attack on all alliance members. The Baltic states joined NATO in 2004, but Ukraine is not a member..................http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0903/641077-ukraine/
3/9/14
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  1. Obama desconfía del supuesto alto al fuego en Ucrania: 'Hasta ahora no han funcionado'...


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    En medio de la confusión sobre el posible alto al fuego en Ucrania, el presidente Barack Obama se muestra escéptico por el "poco seguimiento" que han tenido los acuerdos de no agresión hasta ahora.

    "Es demasiado pronto para decir lo que significa el alto al fuego... Hasta ahora no ha funcionado. Porque Rusia no se lo toma en serio o hace como que no controla a los separatistas", dijo el presidente en rueda de prensa con el presidente estonio en Tallin, su primera parada en Europa rumbo a la cumbre de la OTAN este jueves y viernes en Gales. "No hemos visto mucho seguimiento de los alto al fuego". Obama también dijo que hay "esperanza" "si Rusia está dispuesta a dejar de armar, formar y en muchos casos unirse con tropas" a los separatistas en Ucrania.

    Obama acusó al presidente ruso Vladimir Putin de "apelar a los sentimientos nacionalistas que históricamente han sido muy peligrosos para Europa" e insistió en que lo único que le interesa a Estados Unidos es trabajar con un país integrado en la comunidad internacional. "Nuestra prioridad es una Rusia fuerte que colabore"......................http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2014/09/03/5406eae1268e3eb7168b4579.html

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