Less than $4.3k to go!!
Posted on 03/01/2014 3:20:51 PM PST by kristinn
President Obama spoke for 90 minutes this afternoon with President Putin of Russia about the situation in Ukraine. President Obama expressed his deep concern over Russia’s clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, which is a breach of international law, including Russia’s obligations under the UN Charter, and of its 1997 military basing agreement with Ukraine, and which is inconsistent with the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and the Helsinki Final Act. The United States condemns Russia’s military intervention into Ukrainian territory.
The United States calls on Russia to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing its forces back to bases in Crimea and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine. We have consistently said that we recognize Russia’s deep historic and cultural ties to Ukraine and the need to protect the rights of ethnic Russian and minority populations within Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has made clear its commitment to protect the rights of all Ukrainians and to abide by Ukraine’s international commitments, and we will continue to urge them to do so.
President Obama told President Putin that, if Russia has concerns about the treatment of ethnic Russian and minority populations in Ukraine, the appropriate way to address them is peacefully through direct engagement with the government of Ukraine and through the dispatch of international observers under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As a member of both organizations, Russia would be able to participate. President Obama urged an immediate effort to initiate a dialogue between Russia and the Ukrainian government, with international facilitation, as appropriate. The United States is prepared to participate.
President Obama made clear that Russia’s continued violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would negatively impact Russia’s standing in the international community. In the coming hours and days, the United States will urgently consult with allies and partners in the UN Security Council, the North Atlantic Council, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and with the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum. The United States will suspend upcoming participation in preparatory meetings for the G-8. Going forward, Russia’s continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation.
The people of Ukraine have the right to determine their own future. President Obama has directed his Administration to continue working urgently with international partners to provide support for the Ukrainian government, including urgent technical and financial assistance. Going forward, we will continue consulting closely with allies and partners, the Ukrainian government and the International Monetary Fund, to provide the new government with significant assistance to secure financial stability, to support needed reforms, to allow Ukraine to conduct successful elections, and to support Ukraine as it pursues a democratic future.
Why would he back down? There is virtually no resistance
“Plenty of Freepers seem to be in the Putin fan club”
Disagree. The US is in a weakened position, in respect to foreign policy and proposed military cuts. We have an even weaker president who has damaged just about everything he has touched. IMHO, the Russians have intelligence on him, more so weakening our position.
Pray for America.
Stress, you know.
You’re posting Russian propaganda.
That was a coup...not impeachment....
Irrelevant. Whatever the problems in Ukraine that doesn’t give Putin the right to roll tanks through the country.
There are thousands of US citizens living Ukraine. Should the kenyan send over a marine division to Ukraine uninvited to protect them?
bttt
Putin: “..... hello again, you Iranian b****”
Exactly. People who say Obama is in over his head are wrong. Obama doesn't make policy, he is the front man, so how can he be in over his head?
US policy depends on whether Soros is short or long the Ukrainian economy. And the only people who really know that for sure are his fund managers. But we will be to see clues on this from observing US policy in this matter.
Back in the USSR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHD5nd3QLTg
Does anyone believe this conversation actually took place? I don’t, and think a go-between at the White Hut asked his counterpart in Russia if they would contradict a statement saying the two talked today. The counterpart, laughing, said, “No, knock yourselves out.”
Why don’t we have duels anymore? Guess which one I would be rooting for.
“We’ll regain our status as a nuclear power and that’ll change the conversation. Ukraine has all the technological means needed to create a nuclear arsenal – which would take us about three to six months,” Svoboda party MP Mikhail Golovko said.
Can Ukraine do that?
SO????????????
Is Russia Today really that different from The New York Times or the Washington Post?
Do you really believe Operation Mockingbird really doesn’t exist today in some form or fashion?
LOL! Love the captions. So true.
I think in that Vlady really wondering how Americans elect this dude LOL!
Wonder if Holder is the only one suffering from “panic attacks” ...
The elected leader of Ukraine violated every promise he made to Ukrainians and signed a deal with Russia which would make Ukraine beholding to Putin and his financial assistance. The people protested this 180* turn from what was promised. Then the democratically elected Leader called on military snippers to shoot down in the streets his own constituency. The patriots of Kiev then did something our Founders would have understood. They watered the tree of Liberty. Your wild spin about Nazis and Monsanto and Soros just make you sound like a Kremlin hack.
9() minutes??????…Putin must have hung up and Obama kept talking???
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