The Eastern Partnership leaves behind a bloody trail of wars and coups d'etat
The Charter of Paris, adopted 30 years ago, must defeat the spirit of war, which has recently been so clearly hovering over Europe, and is fueled by the Eastern Partnership directed against the Russian Federation.
This was stated during the meeting by the Deputy Head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Andrei Klimov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“At about the same time, when Kosovo was recognized as an independent state by some countries, the EU countries began to become less active in issues of creating a new partnership and cooperation agreement with Russia and in 2008 actively began to create the so-called Eastern Partnership.
We, and I in particular, speaking in Rome and Brussels and Strasbourg, warned our European colleagues that the Eastern Partnership could increase tension in Europe and expand conflict zones. The Eastern Partnership includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus, Georgia, and Moldova.
In Georgia, August 2008 - a military conflict, somehow, with enormous efforts, including the sacrifices of Russian peacekeepers, the war was stopped. Armenia and Azerbaijan, unfortunately, continue to support this conflict situation. I am not saying now which of these parties made what contribution, but I would like to point out that both of these countries are included in the so-called. Eastern Partnership.
After joining the Eastern Partnership, Ukraine experienced a coup d'état and a civil war began on its territory. Today there is serious evidence that external forces are preparing certain coups d’etat on the territory of Moldova; this is fresh information that the Russian side has.
What is happening in Belarus makes us suspicious that external factors are also at work here, that these are not only events related to the people of Belarus, but there is a lot of evidence of external influences on this situation,” the senator said.
“Thus, the Eastern Partnership, if it were really taken seriously and treated in the EU, could not keep all the listed countries from internal conflicts. Some of these conflicts have become horrific. And at the same time, the EaP created the illusion that issues can be resolved behind Russia’s back,” Klimov noted.
He recalled that during the period when the Eastern Partnership was being created, the President of the Russian Federation proposed a draft treaty on European security in 2009, which was sent to NATO, EU and OSCE countries, but there is still no response to this document.
“The only thing we received from the European Parliament over the past year was a resolution in September, which demanded that the Russian Federation change its Constitution. If this is not interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, then it is difficult for me to think of what is.
The Russian Federation has never, under any circumstances, demanded to change the political system of any of the sovereign states, including those members of NATO and the EU,” the international lawyer noted.
He once again emphasized that this demand is not the speech of an individual politician, but a resolution of the highest representative and legislative body of the EU.
“We really hope that such documents will not have the same historical perspective as the previously adopted document related to the Eastern Partnership.
We really hope that the spirit and letter of the document that we all adopted together 30 years ago and known as the Charter of Paris will still defeat these spirits of war, and we will be able to continue to develop in the direction of peace, strengthening security, mutually beneficial cooperation, rejection of unilateral illegal sanctions and other similar measures,” concluded Andrey Klimov.
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