Pushes for a new round of peace talks amid escalating violence in eastern Ukraine seem to be hitting a brick wall, with Ukraine refusing to allow any involvement of the eastern protest movement in the talks, and Russia ruling out participating in any talks without them.
Ukraine’s interim government insists it is unnecessary to allow the protesters to attend the conference, on the grounds that as the (interim) government it “already represents all the people of Ukraine,” including apparently the ones their military is killing.
Russian officials insist there is no point in the talks without the protesters’ involvement, and that they would amount to just going around in circles. The last round of talks, which similarly didn’t include the protesters, ended with a call to end the protests. The protesters didn’t, and everyone blamed Russia, insisting that with the protesters dominated by ethnic Russians, the Russian government theoretically could order them to stop.
The last round of talks didn’t change anyone’s position, and instead they all issued a joint statement that every nation involved interpreted as supporting their existing stance, with the interim Ukraine government arguing the call to end tensions in the east was essentially international permission to invade and “liquidate” the protesters to restore order.
Interim government of Ukraine, what dose’t mean Jason? The word “interim” means, I wish, I hope or I cross my finger for something. Government means when a system is elected by the people to govern the country and the nation, in regard to Ukraine the first word “interim” is more likely then the second word “government”. But as you being SO diplomatic, not only about Ukraine but also in Syrian case, persisting that Syrian war is a civil war, again I admire you being SO diplomatic, but I wonder if you are not too if a diplomatic-diplomat and sleeping on the job at the same time?
This would be akin to the Israelis demanding they would represent the Palestinians in the occupied territories at the peace talks…
If there are differents points of view in ukrainian parlement, deputies box each other. Why then USA is accusing Russia of involving in fights in easter regions ? It is the same quarels as in ukrainian parlement but only on bigger scale.The tragic-comic side of the story is the realese today of governor of Donetsk region from Kiev jail (he was arrested for anti Kiev position) against a captured SBU man (secret service of Ukraine) by the pro russian fighters.
The 25 May election will solve this problem. Even if the election is free and fair, and that's unlikely in the areas where armed bands are in a position to intimidate people as they doubtless did in Crimea, a certain number of pro-Russian supporters will be elected to the new parliament and Putin's people can then meet with an all-party parliamentary delegation. There will also be a new president and government, which will indeed represent all the people of Ukraine.
http://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html
You can see the level of hate in the rangs of people supported by Kiev,CEE and USA.In the name of democracy ?