Sergey Lavrov

Name: On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy
Author: Sergey Lavrov

On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

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“On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy”, is a work by Sergey Lavrov. It explores elements such as Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russia.

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ I shall say bluntly, Ukraine’s entry into NATO will entail a deep crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations. This crisis will most adversely affect pan-European security as well. So the West must also make a choice and a strategic choice at that. I think that imposing on Ukraine the role of a buffer between Europe and Russia means to belittle the importance of Ukraine itself.
It would be far more constructive for us all together to build relations with the outside world, especially as Russia and Ukraine are an integral part of Europe, of European culture, politics and economics. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ Thus from the seemingly right thought that not a single state can ensure its security in present-day conditions alone a conclusion is drawn in favor of the NATO-centric system of European security, at a time when NATO-centrism, bringing a split in the Euro-Atlantic community, has proved its absolute defectiveness and futility. All the more unacceptable appears to be the conclusion about the need to “arm itself,” up to and including Ukraine’s acquisition of the status of a nuclear weapon power. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ We sincerely hope that our Ukrainian friends will succeed in finding a mutually acceptable way out of the mixed situation in which Ukrainian politics has found itself today, and that Ukraine will be able, overcoming all the difficulties, not to try to achieve its foreign policy aims in the western sector at the cost of avowedly anti-Russian actions and insulting our common, blood-cemented history. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ Relations between Russia and Ukraine and ties between our peoples are deeper and many-fold stronger than any conjuncture. All aspects of our multidimensional cooperation – in the political sphere, in the economic, commercial and energy fields, and first of all, at the most important level of people-to-people relations – are extremely important to us. Efforts by Russian diplomacy are directed towards ensuring that Russian-Ukrainian relations develop in an ongoing fashion and are pragmatic and mutually beneficial. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ People in Russia were simply shocked by the reaction of Ukraine over Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia. For our nations and peoples it had always been natural to take the side of truth and justice. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ The effective military operation of Russia to force Georgia to peace, it seems, still gives some people no rest. Yet Russia acted in full conformity with the norms of international law, including the right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, since Russian peacekeepers and Russian citizens were the target of barbaric aggression by Tbilisi. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ Now Abkhazia and South Ossetia can normally, full-fledgedly develop, having been denied this by the constant threat of use of force on the part of Tbilisi. By the way, another lesson from the recent events is that not a single conflict has a force-based solution, a solution bypassing one of the parties.
As to the European security architecture, we’re witnessing the need to have it rebuilt in line with the requirements of our time. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ Our attitude to the Ukrainian people will always be invariably friendly, and policy towards Ukraine respectful, but we are going to construct its practical vectors having regard to the real positions of Kyiv and depending on the moves being undertaken by Ukrainian authorities. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ Meanwhile, it is known that the Ukrainian leadership, through its deliveries of heavy offensive weapons to the Georgian army, bears its share of responsibility for the tragedy that has occurred in the region. Hundreds of people died, most of them civilians. ”

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Sergey Lavrov, On the Caucasus Crisis and Russia’s Ukrainian Policy

“ Probably, for some people the events developed too fast to take right decisions promptly. Those capitals were guided by their own experience of force-based actions in violation of the norms of international law. Actions, as was the case in Serbia in 1999, which took the form of ineffective military pressure on the population through air bombings. ”

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