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RUSSIA HITS BACK AT US ‘BAREFACED CYNICISM AND DOUBLE
STANDARDS’ OVER UKRAINE
March 06, 2014 19:40
The Russian Foreign Ministry has
accused the US State Department of double standards
and low-level
propaganda
after it published a list of President
Vladimir Putin’s “false claims” about the events in Ukraine.
“The State Department is trying to play on a shamelessly
one-sided interpretation of the events,”
ministry spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashevich said on
Thursday.
“Surely, Washington cannot admit
that
they were nurturing
Maidan [protests],
encouraging the violent overthrow
of the legitimate
government,
and thus clearing the way for those who are now pretending to be a
legitimate power in Kiev.”
On Wednesday, one day after the Russian president's media
conference on the events in Ukraine, the US State Department accused him of
lying and published a “fact sheet” of Putin's 10 “false claims” surrounding the
crisis.
Moscow said that it will not respond to such “low-level
propaganda.”
“We will only say, yet again, that we are dealing with
unacceptable arrogance and a pretense of having a monopoly on the truth,”
Lukashevich said in a statement posted on the Foreign
Ministry’s website.
The United States has “no moral
right” to lecture about observing
international laws and respecting the sovereignty of other states, the diplomat
added.
“What about the bombing of former
Yugoslavia or the invasion of Iraq
over a fabricated cause?”
Lukashevich pointed out.
There have been quite a few examples
of American military foreign interventions when there was no real threat to US
security:
VIETNAM, LEBANON, THE DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC, GRENADA, LIBYA, AND PANAMA.
“The Vietnam War claimed the lives
of two million civilians, not to mention totally
destroyed the country and polluted the environment,”
the diplomat said.
“On the pretext of providing
security to Americans who simply happened to be in conflict zones, the US invaded Lebanon in 1958 and the Dominican Republic
in 1965, attacked tiny Grenada in 1983, bombed Libya in 1986, and occupied
Panama three years later.”
“Still, they dare to blame Russia of
‘armed aggression’ when it stands up for its compatriots – who comprise
the majority of Crimea’s population –
in order to prevent ultra-nationalist forces from organizing
yet another bloody Maidan.”
Apparently, Washington cannot adequately
handle the development of events which are not in line with American templates,
Moscow said.
But this is no reason to shift the blame, the ministry
concluded.
The two nuclear powers have been involved in a
bitter dispute over the Ukrainian crisis,
with Washington giving its backing to the coup-appointed
government.
The US has repeatedly
accused Russia of “invading” the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,
ignoring the
fact that an existing 1997 agreement between Russia and Ukraine allows Moscow
to keep up to 25,000 Black Sea Fleet troops in the peninsula.
Following the violent uprising which resulted in the ouster
of President Viktor Yanukovich,
Crimean authorities denounced the
coup-appointed government in Kiev
and declared that all Ukrainian law enforcement
and military deployed in the peninsula must take orders from them.
The government of the republic – which comprises of mostly
Russian speakers – asked Moscow to provide assistance to ensure peace and order
in the region.
CRIMEA IS TO DECIDE IN A MARCH 16
REFERENDUM WHETHER IT WANTS TO REMAIN WITHIN UKRAINE OR JOIN RUSSIA.
