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Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2014
Apparently, it doesn’t occur to the Europeans that their own actions have an influence on the course of the ceasefire. By continuing to target Russia they may embolden Right Sector deadenders.
The News
9th September, 2014
The EU’s ambassadors agreed on the new restrictions last Friday in Newport, Wales, and the sanctions were due to be approved on Monday so that they would come into force on Tuesday. However, the representatives of some countries argued that the enforcement should be pushed back in the light of the ceasefire announced in eastern Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2014
Ukrainian troops encircled outside Ilovaisk want to change Kiev government
ITAR/TASS
7th September, 2014
WASHINGTON, September 07,/ITAR-TASS/. Fighters of Ukrainian volunteer battalions that were encircled outside the city of Ilovaisk in late August are accusing the Kiev government of not supporting them and threaten to change the regime, Foreign Policy magazine said in an article published on its website on Saturday. The magazine correspondent met some of the fighters.
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Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2014
Ukraine to be decentralized, special status for Lugansk, Donetsk
RT
7th September, 2014
The OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. It says that Ukraine must adopt a new law, allowing for a special status for Lugansk and Donetsk regions, and hold early elections there.
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Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2014
Cailean Bochanan
6th September, 2014
The unfolding events in Ukraine are of world-historic significance and the West has responded as unconscious players do: with a stunned silence and the delusion of business as usual. In one fell swoop the entire Western narrative on Ukraine has fallen apart.
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Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2014
By supporting further sanctions the EU leadership are effectively inviting the anti-Russian forces in Ukraine, who they have backed from the start, to break the ceasefire. They are being grossly irresponsible and further tarnishing their reputation in the eyes of the wider world.
SBS
6th September, 2014
The sanctions tighten existing measures imposed in July, targeting more individuals with travel bans and asset freezes, as well as tightening access to capital markets for Russian oil and defence companies.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said in a letter to European leaders that the new measures were an “effective tool” to “reinforce the principle that EU sanctions are directed at promoting a change of course in Russia’s actions in Ukraine”.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2014
The Hill
5th September, 2014
President Obama was nowhere to be found during the beginning of a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in Wales on Thursday.
Obama was “noticeably absent” from the start of the meeting, according to a White House pool report, although U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute was in attendance.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2014
Official: Ukraine’s NATO Membership Not Discussed at Meeting in UK
RIAN
5th September, 2014
NEWPORT, September 5 (RIA Novosti) – NATO and Ukraine did not discuss the possibility of the Eastern European country’s membership in the military alliance, a NATO official said Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2014
RT
5th September, 2014
Kiev officials and representatives of the two self-proclaimed republics in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire, as the contact group met behind closed doors in Belarus.
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Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2014
NATO fears peace as bats fear the light
NATO Chief Dismisses Putin’s Ukraine Plan
Voice of America
4th September, 2014
NATO’s secretary-general has dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s seven-step plan to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine, as alliance leaders gathered in Britain for their first summit in two years.
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Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2014
First, they tried to sign the AA with the legal government, then they tried to sign it with the illegal government which they had installed via a coup d’etat. Now they are trying to sign it with a government which has just lost a war against part of its own population, whose neo-nazi front line troops have sworn to overthrow it, whose national army has disintegrated and which will preside over a de facto partition of the the country if it continues to reject a negotiated peace settlement. All this so that the respective parties can save some face and continue to maintain the completely false story they have been putting out through their completely controlled media. The EU cannot get much lower than this and if it continues to exhibit this kind of political ineptitude, fruit of a political class completely in tow to Anglo-American interests, it will collapse. The problem in Europe is not so much the economy or the common currency but the crisis in direction and in the absence of an independent political leadership.
Euroactiv
4th September, 2014
The European Parliament and Ukraine will ratify the country’s Association Agreement (AA) simultaneously, during the 15-18 September session, EurActiv has learned. The signing of the AA led to the conflict currently under way between Ukraine and Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2014
Ukraine, the USA and the EU felt they could ignore existing agreements as regime forces pushed East. Now that these forces have been defeated and are being pushed West, they still think they can ignore agreements. But the agreements could help to avoid further humiliation in the form of further defeats, the exposure of the role of fascist and Western mercenary forces in the conflict and possible revolution in Kiev. The West is now in total disarray, substituting fantasy and bluff and bluster for coherent attempts to find solutions to problems of its own making. If they think their behavior goes unnoticed they are mistaken: the whole is taking cognizance of the amateurism and unreliability of the West and taking steps to protect themselves from its erratic policies. At the same time, we in the West need to urgently rethink our whole approach since we need the emerging world to help us avoid the worst in the coming economic collapse.
US, EU Uninterested in Carrying out Agreement on Settlement of Ukrainian Crisis
RIAN
4th September, 2014
MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine, the United States and the European Union are not interested in implementing previously agreed arrangements for the settlement of the situation in the southeast of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
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