The United States is ready to recognize Crimea as Russian if Putin stops helping Donbass militias

25.06.2014 09:43
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Technologies, Armed forces, Crimea, Policy, Ukraine, Economy


Moscow - Kyiv, June 25 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The US and NATO approved Vladimir Putin’s request to the Federation Council to revoke permission to send troops to Ukraine. This will avoid the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, they say in Washington, but they do not yet intend to lift the old ones. America offers the Russian Federation a deal: to recognize the Russian status of Crimea in exchange for stopping assistance to the militias and the withdrawal of all military infrastructure from the borders of Ukraine.

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“We evaluate this proposal positively,” EU representative in Russia Vygaudas Ušackas told Kommersant. “We hope that in the future Russia will take concrete steps to de-escalate and stabilize the situation in Ukraine, especially in support of Petro Poroshenko’s peace plan, and will promote the disarmament of informal armed groups and respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.” Speaking about the possible easing of sanctions, Ušackas explained: the Kremlin’s initiative in the EU is perceived as “the first concrete step, which will be gradually followed by other concrete decisions.”

“We take into account Vladimir Putin’s decision and share President Poroshenko’s point of view that this can be regarded as Russia’s first step towards de-escalating the Ukrainian crisis,” NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu told Kommersant. “The Russian Federation must take a number of other steps. In particular, we expect her to withdraw troops and military infrastructure from the Ukrainian border, renounce support for armed separatists, block the channel for the transport of weapons and military equipment across the border, as well as publicly condemn the separatists in accordance with the Geneva agreements.” Kommersant’s interlocutors at NATO headquarters did not discuss the issue of sanctions, noting that it falls within the competence of individual countries, not the alliance.

Washington believes that Vladimir Putin’s decision will avoid the introduction of new sanctions by the United States and the EU, but negotiations on the lifting of old ones can begin only after the West is convinced that Moscow has refused to support south-eastern Ukraine. A source close to the US administration assured Kommersant that there is no talk of a complete lifting of sanctions, and added: “If Russia keeps its promises, it will avoid the threat of introducing new sanctions. We can expect the lifting of the imposed sanctions only after the change of administration in 2016.” “The White House is still considering the possibility of introducing economic sanctions, but we can assume that the danger of the most stringent sectoral measures has temporarily passed,” a leading expert at the Washington Heritage Foundation told Kommersant Ariel Cohen. According to sources close to the State Department, among the US proposals at consultations with the EU on economic sanctions were: the exclusion of Russian financial institutions from the list of users of the international payment system SWIFT, a ban on the supply of military technologies and dual-use products, including military electronics and night vision devices , refusal of contracts for the supply of equipment for oil and gas production. American experts do not rule out that negotiations on the lifting of sanctions may begin in the foreseeable future. “If arms supplies to the east of Ukraine are stopped, troops are withdrawn from the country’s borders, the United States and the EU countries can sit down at the negotiating table,” Cohen said. “This will consolidate the status quo: Crimea remains part of Russia, and the Russian authorities stop helping the militias "

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