NOVANEWS
Poroshenko ready for international discussion on Donbas settlement
Indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas was not denounced in the West
[ Editor’s note: I just finished getting this story out tonight on the last half hour of Stew Webb’s radio show.
We had Gordon, Preston James, Mike Harris, and Chip Tatum on… quite a crew. Our Ukraine day started out with the surprising announcement that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to a humanitarian intervention in the East under the auspices of the International Red Cross.
It seems that the Russian attack that NATO has been claiming that the bow string was being pulled back on turned out to be just the opposite, a humanitarian gesture to parry the American and EU position that there was not a crisis that needed such intervention.
As these aid columns go in, they need to be loaded up with journalists and engineers to give some authoritative input on the extent of this “Western inflicted damage”.
During the day, a series of EU reports were coming out on the ripple effect of the Russian response finally to the Western sanctions attacks. I had written early on about the massive stupidity of that strategy on Europe, which has a $100-billion trade surplus with Russia.
Has the EU overreached with Ukraine?
And, with their economies still teetering on the edge, who in their right mind would want to disrupt the export markets that remained? Russia had plenty of other countries that would be more than happy to sell them foodstuffs.
Mark my words. When this silliness finally ends, before the EU gets its Russian business back, expect to see some requests made to outlaw sanctions via national legislation – to take it away from the political corruption of the elite insiders, who use sanctions for their own destabilization scams, from which they can profit.
As Hamas has put the “no more blockade” card on the table now — showing they want to put an end to the cycle of being bombed every two years when the Zios decide it is “time to mow the lawn again” in Gaza, the term they use for mass murder — so the Russians and, I suspect, many others will want to defang the sanctions monster. Hope that the political fallout on this EU craziness throws out a lot of the old-guard Cold Warriors… Jim W. Dean ]
KIEV, August 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he is ready for international discussion on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region in the Normandy or Geneva format, the presidential press service said on Monday.
In a telephone conversation with the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso the Ukrainian leader said he wanted “the Ukrainian issue” to be put on the agenda and duly considered at the next meeting of the European Council on August 30, 2014.
Poroshenko assured the European Commission president that he wanted to implement the peace plan based on the principle of bilateral ceasefire, with monitoring and verification of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), release of hostages and control over the Ukrainian-Russian border.
Poroshenko and Barroso discussed the schedule of the enactment of the Association Agreement with the EU, as well as energy co-operation issues and resumption of gas negotiations in the trilateral format EU-Ukraine-Russia.
During the conversation the sides also touched upon the international humanitarian mission for Lugansk under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
