Former French foreign Minister: the West is obliged to negotiate with Russia on the Ukrainian question
The West has made a number of mistakes in relations With Russia, as well as among them in connection With the situation in Ukraine, for this reason now the European side should return to negotiations With Russia on an equal footing, says the French Politician, socialist, former Minister of foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hubert vedrin.
" After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Western policy in the aggregate was not smart enough relative to the horrific injury he got Russia, where the population has lost 30% to 40% of trading ability, learned a great humiliation, " said Vedran in conversation Agence France-Presse, reports TASS. The politician also said that the West, however, had refused to make concessions to the Russian side in the total number of geopolitical issues, including missile defense and the expansion of NATO. According to the former Minister, he " is not included in the number of those who believes that all the guilty citizens of Russia." The US was not right, wanting at all costs to lure all the States of Central and Eastern Europe into NATO, continued vedrin.- Ukraine has historically been a country bridge With Russian, Polish and Western influence. It was necessary to take into account From the beginning and never to act as if this country certainly should be included in our camping ". As noticed, a French Politician, in such conditions, the optimal solution for Ukraine would be giving it the status of a neutral country like Finland, as well as the " federalization of guarantees of protection for minorities." All this was not done. With Ukraine worked even worse than Russia in the last 20 years. The appalling level of confusion, incompetence, and corruption, " he said. In the future to resolve the current dispute With Moscow, believes vedrin that Western countries need to tackle the backlog of questions From realistic positions, for example, " reformulating the Association agreement EU-Ukraine ". However, at present, he said, " the overwhelming majority of leaders are happy to adhere to rigid and barren perspectives, which tend to increase punishments " about Russia." we must be ready to agree, when everyone went to meet each other. This is exactly the dialogues, graduated from the former head of French diplomacy. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection With the situation in Ukraine. The EU and the US on the background of the progress of the Minsk agreements between Kiev and militias Donbass about stopping the fire entered against Russia penalties against financial, oil and defense industries.
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