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Kiev may use NATO`s aid to counteract Crimean separatism - view
BRUSSELS, August 25 (Itar-Tass) - Russian envoy at NATO Dmitry Rogozin
believes Kiev is ready to use NATO's assistance to counteract the
separatist sentiment in the Crimea.
It would be the main idea of the addendum to the charter of individual
partnership action plan, which Ukraine and NATO signed earlier, he told
Itar-Tass on Monday.
The document was signed on Friday by NATO Secretary General Anders
Fogh Rasmussen and Ukrainian envoy at NATO Igor Sagach.
"An analysis of this document shows that it has been signed for the
sake of one phrase, according to which Kiev has the right to call an
emergency meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in case of "the emergence
of threat to Ukraine's territorial integrity," Rogozin underlined.
"The very emergency of this document shows that having plunged Ukraine
in the sea of turbulences, President Viktor Yushchenko is ready to ask a
foreign military alliance for help in case of the strengthening of
separatist sentiment in problem regions, and it's no secret to everybody
that the Crimea is such region in Ukraine," he said.
For Russia, which has taken "a very reserved position on the Crime
problem, with complete respect for Ukraine's sovereignty, it means that
"one has to muster up patience in relations with Kiev."
Rogozin likened the Ukrainian authorities to "a fox which has eaten a
much too big hare and is unable to digest it."
"They seem to feel uncomfortable with the country with its present-day
large and happy borders," the Russian envoy said.
He underlined that the signing of the declaration indicates that "the
incumbent Ukrainian authorities have no moral strength, capable of uniting
the country, and for this, they need a threat of use of force from the
inside."
There is another side to the declaration: Yushchenko is seeking to
make the process of joining NATO irreversible and make his successes,
regardless of who they are, follow this force.
"He want this issue to be resolved not at a referendum, but on the
backstage of officials' rooms," Rogozin said.
believes Kiev is ready to use NATO's assistance to counteract the
separatist sentiment in the Crimea.
It would be the main idea of the addendum to the charter of individual
partnership action plan, which Ukraine and NATO signed earlier, he told
Itar-Tass on Monday.
The document was signed on Friday by NATO Secretary General Anders
Fogh Rasmussen and Ukrainian envoy at NATO Igor Sagach.
"An analysis of this document shows that it has been signed for the
sake of one phrase, according to which Kiev has the right to call an
emergency meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in case of "the emergence
of threat to Ukraine's territorial integrity," Rogozin underlined.
"The very emergency of this document shows that having plunged Ukraine
in the sea of turbulences, President Viktor Yushchenko is ready to ask a
foreign military alliance for help in case of the strengthening of
separatist sentiment in problem regions, and it's no secret to everybody
that the Crimea is such region in Ukraine," he said.
For Russia, which has taken "a very reserved position on the Crime
problem, with complete respect for Ukraine's sovereignty, it means that
"one has to muster up patience in relations with Kiev."
Rogozin likened the Ukrainian authorities to "a fox which has eaten a
much too big hare and is unable to digest it."
"They seem to feel uncomfortable with the country with its present-day
large and happy borders," the Russian envoy said.
He underlined that the signing of the declaration indicates that "the
incumbent Ukrainian authorities have no moral strength, capable of uniting
the country, and for this, they need a threat of use of force from the
inside."
There is another side to the declaration: Yushchenko is seeking to
make the process of joining NATO irreversible and make his successes,
regardless of who they are, follow this force.
"He want this issue to be resolved not at a referendum, but on the
backstage of officials' rooms," Rogozin said.
