" Left " urged Merkel to cancel penalties against Russia
Deputy Chairman of the faction " Left " in the Bundestag Sarah Wagenknecht was made in Parliament with critical speech to the official foreign policy of Germany, called for the abolition of the punishment relative to Russia and to remember phrases former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
" in the year of the century since the First world war and the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second world war urgently need to remember the phrase Willy Brandt: the war is not the ultima ratio (last resort), War is ultima irratio (extremely unwise tool). War should not be a political tool, MS (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel. For this reason, return to the path of diplomacy, stop punishment!" said Wagenknecht.
She also pointed out a number of statements by Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and President of Petro Poroshenko." head Poroshenko says about total war and stopped all payments to clinics and pensioners in Eastern Ukraine ", - said the people's choice. In her expressions, Germany needed " a clear foreign policy, for which peace and security in the European Union is more important than orders from the capital of the USA ".
In addition, Wagenknecht recalled the statements of the head of the German-Russian forum Matthias Platzeck, because of which he was hit by a wave of opponents." If the SPD and the true voices of reason, from Helmut Schmidt and ending with Matthias Platzeck, then listen, please, to his coalition partners, will finish this game with fire!" said Wagenknecht.
last week the journal of the Passauer Neue Presse published an Interview with Platzeck, in which he said that the authorities in Kiev is unlikely to have the opportunity to count after all events in the Donbass to return in the near future under its own supervision of Lugansk and Donetsk. Platzeck said that the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation shall be issued and legalized with the position of international law so that it has been acceptable to all ". In his vision, there are different possibilities. In view of such possibilities, he called financial payments or repetition of a referendum under the supervision of the OSCE.
The interview has become a cause for the waves of opponents in Germany. On the next day, the press service of " German-Russian forum issued a statement clarifying the wording of Platzeck. It was emphasized that Platzeck in no case did not have in mind the need for " recognition of the annexation of the Crimea ".
Crimea became a Russian region after the March referendum in which an overwhelming number of residents were in favour of secession from Ukraine and entry into the Russian Federation. The US and EU do not recognize the annexation of Crimea to Russia and accuse Moscow of interfering in Ukraine. Russia calls such accusations are unacceptable and unjustified. The head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin was named the West's response to the Crimea to Russia absolutely inadequate to the fact that it was because the norms of international law were not violated.
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