Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Ketua ‘FREEDOM House’ berkata KEENGGANAN Obama memberi PERTOLONGAN Lethal ke Kiev adalah satu KESILAPAN . . .

U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters/Larry Downing)

tiaraVillaRuby  Amerika Syarikat perlu memberi bantuan maut ke Ukraine, ketua pengawal demokrasi Freedom House telah berkata, menggambarkan keengganan Presiden Barack Obama untuk membekalkan bantuan itu kepada tentera di negara ini - walaupun rayuan Kiev - satu kesilapan.

Terdapat "tidak syak lagi" Presiden Amerika Syarikat akan mengikuti melalui dengan keputusannya untuk tidak membekalkan bantuan maut ke Ukraine, kata David Kramer, bekas penolong Setiausaha Negara dan Presiden Freedom House - satu badan pemantau bebas khusus untuk perkembangan kebebasan di seluruh DUNIA.

Kramer melawat Kiev pada hari Isnin, menyampaikan ucapan mengenai konflik di Ukraine Krisis Media Center.

"Amerika Syarikat harus memberikan bantuan maut ke Ukraine," katanya, seperti yang dipetik oleh pusat media. Kramer juga mengkritik keengganan Obama untuk berbuat demikian, memanggil ia satu "kesilapan."

FREEDOM House chief says Obama’s REFUSAL to give Lethal AID to Kiev is a MISTAKE . . .

The US should give lethal assistance to Ukraine, the head of democracy watchdog Freedom House has said, describing President Barack Obama's refusal to supply such aid to the country's military – despite Kiev's pleas – a mistake.

There is “no doubt” the US president will follow through with his decision not to supply lethal assistance to Ukraine, said David Kramer, former assistant secretary of state and president of Freedom House – an independent watchdog dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.

Kramer visited Kiev on Monday, delivering a speech on the conflict at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center.

“The US should provide lethal assistance to Ukraine,” he said, as quoted by the media center. Kramer also criticized Obama’s refusal to do so, calling it a “mistake.”

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Beliau berharap bahawa menyokong permintaan Kiev oleh Kongres Amerika Syarikat boleh memujuk White Houseuntuk menukar posisi.

Obama telah menurun untuk membekalkan Ukraine dengan "pembantu membawa maut," walaupun rayuan Presiden Ukraine Petro Poroshenko untuk peralatan yang lebih ketenteraan, semasa mesyuarat White House di antara kedua-dua pemimpin pada Khamis.

Presiden Amerika Syarikat menyatakan bahawa hanya bantuan bukan maut akan dibekalkan kepada Kiev, dan berikrar $53 juta dalam bantuan segar.

Semasa temu bual di saluran televisyen Amerika Syarikat berikutan mesyuarat dengan Obama, Poroshenko berkata peralatan pertahanan yang diberikan oleh Amerika Syarikat dan negara-negara lain "akan meningkatkan keberkesanan senjata kami dan membantu memodenkan mereka."

Pada hari Ahad, Poroshenko menyatakan bahawa tentera Ukraine telah mengalami kerugian besar, dengan sehingga 65 % peratus daripada perkakasan hilang atau musnah dalam operasi ketenteraan di timur negara ini.

Walaupun keengganan Obama, Senat Amerika Syarikat minggu lepas memper-kenalkan satu rang undang-undang yang memberi kuasa kepada pentadbiran Obama untuk membekalkan Kiev dengan bernilai $ 350 juta teknologi senjata canggih pada tahun 2015 tahun fiskal.

He expressed hope that the support of Kiev’s request by the US Congress can persuade the White House to change its position.

Obama has declined to supply Ukraine with “lethal aide,” despite Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s plea for more military equipment, during a White House meeting between the two leaders on Thursday. The US president stated that only non-lethal assistance will be supplied to Kiev, and pledged $53 million in fresh aid.

During interviews on US television channels following the meeting with Obama, Poroshenko said that defense equipment provided by the US and other states “will increase the effectiveness of our weapons and help modernize them.”

On Sunday, Poroshenko stated that the Ukrainian army has suffered heavy losses, with up to 65 percent of hardware lost or destroyed in military operations in the east of the country.

Despite Obama’s reluctance, the US Senate last week introduced a bill authorizing the Obama administration to supply Kiev with $350 million worth of sophisticated weapons technology in the 2015 fiscal year.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Sementara itu, gencatan senjata yang diguna pakai oleh Kiev dan Republik sendiri mengisytiharkan Rakyat Donetsk dan Lugansk di Minsk awal bulan ini masih di tempatnya. Di bawah memorandum itu dibelasah keluar pada perbincangan itu, kedua-dua belah konflik bersetuju untuk menghentikan semua pertempuran di timur Ukraine.

Perjanjian itu menggariskan zon penampan 30 km yang bebas daripada senjata berat, dan mengharamkan semua pesawat tentera dari terbang di atas wilayah yang dikuasai oleh militia timur.

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Yang Minsk memorandum bertujuan mewujudkan gencatan senjata yang lebih berkekalan. Pertubuhan bagi Keselamatan dan Kerjasama di Eropah (OSCE) telah ditugaskan untuk memastikan kedua-dua pihak mematuhi syarat-syarat gencatan senjata.

OSCE utusan Rusia, Andrey Kelin, memberitahu Itar-Tass dalam satu temu bual sebelum ini pada bulan September bahawa "pemberhentian sementara permusuhan akan menjadi tidak berguna" dalam menyelesaikan konflik itu.

"[Yang] menyimpulkan gencatan senjata selama beberapa hari semata-mata akan membiarkan pihak yang berperang berkumpul semula diri mereka dan pergi pada pertempuran, cara ia berlaku banyak kali pada masa lalu. Seperti jeda yang tidak diperlukan. Perlu ada yang mengenyangkan, gencatan senjata sepenuhnya, "kata Kelin.

Meanwhile, the ceasefire adopted by Kiev and the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in Minsk earlier this month is still in place. Under the memorandum hammered out at the talks, both sides of the conflict agreed to halt all fighting in eastern Ukraine.

The agreement outlined a buffer zone of 30 km which is to be free from heavy weapons, and banned all military aircraft from flying over territory controlled by the eastern militia.


The Minsk memorandum was aimed at establishing a more lasting ceasefire. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has been tasked with making sure both sides adhere to the ceasefire conditions.

Russia’s OSCE envoy, Andrey Kelin, told Itar-Tass in an interview earlier in September that a “temporary cessation of hostilities will be of no use” in resolving the conflict.

“[The] truce concluded for several days will merely let the warring parties regroup themselves and go on fighting, the way it happened many times in the past. Such a pause is unnecessary. There should be a substantive, full-fledged ceasefire,” Kelin said.



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