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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