Yesterday,
"The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany tried [..] to revive high-end diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, amid escalating fighting that is throwing doubts on a shaky peace. .. (below : Klimkin (Ukraine), Fabius (France), Lavrov (Russia), Steinmeier (Germany))
[The]meeting was part of a new round of diplomatic efforts amid a spike in fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian troops. Ukraine and Western powers say Russia arms the rebels, which Moscow denies." (Angela Charlton : Associated Press : Jun 23, 2015) (my emphasis)
Furthermore that,
"...one of the highest officials of the European Commission responsible for Ukraine (we agreed not to disclose his name) suddenly announced that there were problems in Kyiv’s implementation of the Minsk Agreement.
“Yes, we are talking about Russia’s violations of the Minsk Agreement,” he said. “But is Ukraine doing everything to comply with the Minsk requirements? Why don’t you [Ukraine] move ahead with providing special status to the Donbas? After all, you can do that immediately and demonstrate Kyiv’s good will toward carrying out Minsk,” the official explained."(ibid Angela Charlton) (my emphasis)
In the subsequent statement released by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on behalf of the participants,
".... the meeting called for quick de-escalation of hostilities to allow progress on longer-term aspects of the peace deal. Those include an array of political, security, humanitarian and economic questions such as the contentious issue of how much autonomy the rebel regions could achieve." (ibid Angela Charlton) (my emphasis)
The contentious issue of how much autonomy the rebel regions could achieve has become a critical point in the arm-twisting of Ukraine by Germany and France since we now learn that,
" .... [Austrian] Johannes Hahn (left), the commissioner for
European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, during his
visit to Kyiv last week, tried to convince Ukrainian authorities that
Kyiv needs to carry out the “last” points of the Minsk agreement and not
wait for Russia and the Russian-controlled militants to carry out their
portion of the agreement." (Serhiy Sydorenko, European Pravda, June 23, 2015 in EuroMaidan Press : 24/06/2015) (my emphasis)
What should be borne in mind is that Austria is very sympathetic towards Putin.
As Daria Chernyshova has reported,
"...[A] senior Austrian lawmaker and head of the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) monitoring committee said on Monday.
"When we are only working on sanctions, then we have endless frozen
conflicts," Stefan Schennach (right) told reporters on the sidelines of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) summer session
in Strasbourg.
"[In] the political way, I think it would be much more helpful, [for] the Russians, the Ukrainians and the Europeans, not the Americans, this is a European question, [to] solve the problem," Schennach emphasized." (Sputnik : 22.06.2015)
Let us remind ourselves that in the full sequenced proposals of the Minsk2 agreement, the first 4 deal exclusively with the proposed 'ceasefire', and how it should be carried out. (Wikipedia)
Yet, as Angela Charlton has reported, yesterday's meeting of the foreign ministers of Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia, called for, "quick de-escalation of hostilities to allow progress on longer-term aspects of the peace deal".
This is an admission, even on the part of that dyed-in-the-wool Soviet foreign minister, Lavrov (left), that the porposed Minsk2 'ceasefire' seems to have all but broken down.
The LAST three SEQUENCED proposals deal with constitutional reform and decentralization in Ukraine that will take into account "peculiarities of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, agreed with elected representatives of these districts after elections within those districts have been held."
The question that now needs to be asked is whether Merkel, Putin, and Hollande, who had a private Skype meeting about Ukraine without Poroshenko,
also discussed over the phone on Monday (Associated Press:22/06/2015) whether Ukraine should be,
"[carrying] out the “last” points of the Minsk agreement and not wait for Russia and the Russian-controlled militants to carry out their portion of the agreement." (ibid EuroMaidan Press)
After all,
"French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel lamented the "insufficient" progress in resolving the Ukraine crisis after a telephone conversation Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a source close to the French president." (AFP : June 22, 2015) (my emphasis)
Putin seems to have answered this question when he,
"...emphasized the need for Ukraine to conduct political settlement and provide social and economic assistance to the eastern region, according to the Kremlin." (ibid Associated Press:22/06/2015) (my emphasis)
The Ukrainian politicians are right, however, in arguing that,
"... the Minsk Agreement deliberately consists of separate stages and that there is no point in carrying out the last point when Moscow is not even complying with the first one .... " (ibid EuroMaidan Press) (my emphasis)
From this, one can only conclude, as does a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry source, that,
“They [the EU] want the imitation of success in the settlement.
However, they do not have any answers to our questions about why they’re not reacting to the destruction of Shyrokino, Debaltsevo, Uhlehorsk.
This is very frightening because it means we [Ukraine] are being left to face Russia alone. But our position is firm: the Minsk agreements are a composite and currently no point of the Minsk agreement is being fulfilled.." (ibid EuroMaidan Press) (my emphasis)
If the EU seems to be on the verge of been trapped by Putin's 'maskirovka' strategy over Ukraine NATO, on the other hand, seems finally to be confronting Putin with a military build-up of their own.
How ironic.
(to be continued)
"The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany tried [..] to revive high-end diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, amid escalating fighting that is throwing doubts on a shaky peace. .. (below : Klimkin (Ukraine), Fabius (France), Lavrov (Russia), Steinmeier (Germany))
[The]meeting was part of a new round of diplomatic efforts amid a spike in fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian troops. Ukraine and Western powers say Russia arms the rebels, which Moscow denies." (Angela Charlton : Associated Press : Jun 23, 2015) (my emphasis)
Furthermore that,
"...one of the highest officials of the European Commission responsible for Ukraine (we agreed not to disclose his name) suddenly announced that there were problems in Kyiv’s implementation of the Minsk Agreement.
“Yes, we are talking about Russia’s violations of the Minsk Agreement,” he said. “But is Ukraine doing everything to comply with the Minsk requirements? Why don’t you [Ukraine] move ahead with providing special status to the Donbas? After all, you can do that immediately and demonstrate Kyiv’s good will toward carrying out Minsk,” the official explained."(ibid Angela Charlton) (my emphasis)
In the subsequent statement released by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on behalf of the participants,
".... the meeting called for quick de-escalation of hostilities to allow progress on longer-term aspects of the peace deal. Those include an array of political, security, humanitarian and economic questions such as the contentious issue of how much autonomy the rebel regions could achieve." (ibid Angela Charlton) (my emphasis)
The contentious issue of how much autonomy the rebel regions could achieve has become a critical point in the arm-twisting of Ukraine by Germany and France since we now learn that,
" .... [Austrian] Johannes Hahn (left), the commissioner for
European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, during his
visit to Kyiv last week, tried to convince Ukrainian authorities that
Kyiv needs to carry out the “last” points of the Minsk agreement and not
wait for Russia and the Russian-controlled militants to carry out their
portion of the agreement." (Serhiy Sydorenko, European Pravda, June 23, 2015 in EuroMaidan Press : 24/06/2015) (my emphasis)What should be borne in mind is that Austria is very sympathetic towards Putin.
As Daria Chernyshova has reported,
"...[A] senior Austrian lawmaker and head of the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) monitoring committee said on Monday.
"[In] the political way, I think it would be much more helpful, [for] the Russians, the Ukrainians and the Europeans, not the Americans, this is a European question, [to] solve the problem," Schennach emphasized." (Sputnik : 22.06.2015)
Let us remind ourselves that in the full sequenced proposals of the Minsk2 agreement, the first 4 deal exclusively with the proposed 'ceasefire', and how it should be carried out. (Wikipedia)
Yet, as Angela Charlton has reported, yesterday's meeting of the foreign ministers of Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia, called for, "quick de-escalation of hostilities to allow progress on longer-term aspects of the peace deal".
This is an admission, even on the part of that dyed-in-the-wool Soviet foreign minister, Lavrov (left), that the porposed Minsk2 'ceasefire' seems to have all but broken down.The LAST three SEQUENCED proposals deal with constitutional reform and decentralization in Ukraine that will take into account "peculiarities of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, agreed with elected representatives of these districts after elections within those districts have been held."
The question that now needs to be asked is whether Merkel, Putin, and Hollande, who had a private Skype meeting about Ukraine without Poroshenko,also discussed over the phone on Monday (Associated Press:22/06/2015) whether Ukraine should be,
"[carrying] out the “last” points of the Minsk agreement and not wait for Russia and the Russian-controlled militants to carry out their portion of the agreement." (ibid EuroMaidan Press)
After all,
"French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel lamented the "insufficient" progress in resolving the Ukraine crisis after a telephone conversation Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a source close to the French president." (AFP : June 22, 2015) (my emphasis)
Putin seems to have answered this question when he,
"...emphasized the need for Ukraine to conduct political settlement and provide social and economic assistance to the eastern region, according to the Kremlin." (ibid Associated Press:22/06/2015) (my emphasis)
"... the Minsk Agreement deliberately consists of separate stages and that there is no point in carrying out the last point when Moscow is not even complying with the first one .... " (ibid EuroMaidan Press) (my emphasis)
From this, one can only conclude, as does a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry source, that,
“They [the EU] want the imitation of success in the settlement.
However, they do not have any answers to our questions about why they’re not reacting to the destruction of Shyrokino, Debaltsevo, Uhlehorsk.
This is very frightening because it means we [Ukraine] are being left to face Russia alone. But our position is firm: the Minsk agreements are a composite and currently no point of the Minsk agreement is being fulfilled.." (ibid EuroMaidan Press) (my emphasis)
If the EU seems to be on the verge of been trapped by Putin's 'maskirovka' strategy over Ukraine NATO, on the other hand, seems finally to be confronting Putin with a military build-up of their own.
(to be continued)
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