pakatan HarApan: Perdana Menteri Rusia menegur BARAT untuk mengambil-2 pihak ke atas protes Ukraine . . .

Menteri Luar Jerman Guido Westerwelle (tengah) dan juga juara tinju heavyweight dan UDAR (Ukraine Demokratik Pakatan Pembaharuan) pemimpin parti Vitali Klitschko (dariKiri) berjalan di sepanjang Dataran Kemerdekaan di Kiev 4 Dis 2013 (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

Ct1Mahani | SitiWanMahani - Perdana Menteri Rusia, Dmitry Medvedev, mengkritik lawatan pegawai tertinggi Barat untuk Ukraine protes anti-kerajaan, memanggil mereka “campur tangan dalam hal ehwal dalaman Ukraine.”

Beliau merujuk kepada lawatan 2 hari Menteri Luar Jerman Guido Westerwelle ke Ukraine untuk sidang kemuncak OSCE, yang dimulakannya petang Khamis dengan lawatan ke tengah-tengah tunjuk perasaan berterusan. Diiringi oleh 2 pemimpin pembangkang, menteri Jerman melawat Dataran Kemerdekaan Kiev dan Dataran Eropah, kedua-dua tempat utama untuk demonstrasi berterusan.

“Maafkan saya, tetapi mengambil bahagian dalam tindakan itu disebut hanya campur tangan dalam hal ehwal dalaman,” kata Medvedev tentang lawatan Westerwelle ini.

“Saya tertanya-tanya bagaimana rakan-rakan Jerman kami rasa jika, misalnya, Menteri Luar Russia hanya pergi ke beberapa perhimpunan, yang melanggar peraturan-peraturan Jerman. Saya ragu-ragu mereka akan mengambil ia sebagai langkah mesra,” kata Medvedev.

Westerwelle adalah jauh dari satu-satunya tokoh politik barat yang telah datang untuk bercakap dengan penunjuk perasaan Ukraine sejak beberapa minggu lalu. Antara yang tertarik ke Kiev untuk berasa gembira aktivis adalah bekas Perdana Menteri Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski, yang kini mengetuai parti Pis konservatif, Victoria Nuland, Penolong Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat untuk Eropah dan Serani Hal Ehwal, Loreta Grauziniene, Speaker Lithuania Parlimen, dan menteri-menteri luar dari Belanda dan Kanada, Frans Timmermans dan John Baird, masing-masing.

Russia’s PM rebukes West for taking sides on Ukraine protests

Russia’s prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has criticized the visits of top Western officials to Ukrainian anti-government protests, calling them "interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs."

He was referring to the two-day visit of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to Ukraine for an OSCE summit, which he started Thursday evening with a tour to the heart of the ongoing protest. Accompanied by two of the opposition leaders, the German minister toured Kiev’s Independence Square and European Square, the two main venues for the ongoing demonstrations.

“Excuse me, but taking part in such actions is called simply interference in internal affairs,” Medvedev said about Westerwelle’s visit.

“I wonder how our German partners would feel if, for instance, the Russian Foreign Minister just went to some gathering, which was violating German regulations. I doubt they would take it as a friendly step,” Medvedev said.

Westerwelle is far from the only western political figures who has come to speak to Ukrainian protesters over the past few weeks. Among those flocking to Kiev to cheer the activists were Poland’s ex-Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who currently heads the conservative PiS party, Victoria Nuland, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Loreta Grauziniene, the speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, and the foreign ministers of the Netherlands and Canada, Frans Timmermans and John Baird, respectively.

Perdana Menteri Dmitry Medvedev (tengah) memberikan satu temu bual di pusingan-atas kerja Kerajaan pada tahun 2013 kepada saluran TV persekutuan di TV Center Ostankino. (RIA Novosti/Alexander Astafyev – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

SitiWanMahani - Ketika dia menegur perarakan meluluskan pegawai, Medvedev meng-gesa Barat untuk membiarkan Ukraine menyelesaikan perbezaan mereka sendiri. “Semua mereka masalah mesti dijaga oleh kerajaan Ukraine dan rakyat Ukraine, bukan orang luar, bukan Rusia. Tetapi negara-negara lain mesti bertindak dengan betul juga,” katanya.

Beliau juga menolak naratif popular yang menerangkan keputusan Ukraine tidak menan-datangani perjanjian perdagangan utama dengan Kesatuan Eropah, yang mencetuskan tunjuk perasaan, akibat tekanan diplomatik yang menggalakkan daripada Rusia.

“Mereka membuat pengiraan dan menyedari bahawa mereka tidak bersedia untuk itu pada masa ini. Ia adalah perniagaan mereka sendiri. Kita hanya menunjukkan perhatian mereka kepada masalah dan berkata mereka akan menghadapi mereka,” kata Medvedev.

Ukraine telah dalam genggaman bantahan awam besar-besaran sejak akhir November, apabila kerajaan mengumumkan bahawa ia tidak akan menandatangani Perjanjian Persatuan yang dinanti-nantikan dengan EU. Pro -EU ramai integrasi mengambil alih dataran utama di Kiev dan juga mengadakan tunjuk perasaan di bandar-bandar Ukraine.

Konfrontasi dengan kerajaan meningkat minggu lepas dengan pengusiran kejam kem ban-tahan di ibu negara, yang diikuti oleh rusuhan ganas dan rampasan beberapa ban-gunan kerajaan oleh aktivis. Pada masa ini, pembangkang menuntut peletakan jawatan kerajaan dan pilihan raya presiden awal - menuntut bahawa pihak berkuasa menolak.

As he rebuked the parade of approving officials, Medvedev called on the West to let Ukrainians settle their differences on their own. “All those problems must be taken care of by the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people, not foreigners, not Russia. But other countries must act correctly as well,” he said.

He also dismissed the popular narrative that explains Ukraine’s decision not to sign a key trade agreement with the EU, which sparked the protest, as a result of overwhelming diplomatic pressure from Russia.

“They made calculations and realized that they are not prepared for it at the moment. It’s their own business. We simply pointed their attention to the problems and said they would face them,” Medvedev said.

Ukraine has been in the grip of mass public protest since late November, when the government announced that it would not sign the much-anticipated Association Agreement with the EU. Pro-EU integration crowds took over main squares in Kiev and also staged protests in other Ukrainian cities.

The confrontation with the government escalated last week with the brutal eviction of a protest camp in the capital, which was followed by violent riots and the seizure of several governmental buildings by the activists. At the moment, the opposition is demanding the resignation of the government and early presidential election – demands that the authorities reject.