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| Russia Accuses Czech Rep and Poland of Lack of Logic |
| 2008-09-29 |
| Russia is outraged that Poland and the Czech Republic request reciprocal inspections of defense installations. Moscow is proposing a European summit to discuss a collective security system. It is also accusing Prague and Warsaw of 'lack of fundamental logic', as Czech Republic and Poland don't want Russian officers in the planned US missile defence bases in their territory. According to Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, speaking at the UN session Saturday, the 'existing architecture of security in Europe did not pass the strength test in recent events", that is, during the Georgian crisis. Mr Lavrov thus repeated the words of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who said the same following the Georgian war. Mr Medvedev said then that in dialoguing with Moscow, its Western partners should take into account that Russia has its 'zone of privileged interests', including, his wording suggested, the former Soviet republics. One of the key themes of the Moscow-proposed security summit would be the US missile defence installations in Europe. Meanwhile, the Russian foreign Ministry sharply criticised Prague and Warsaw yesterday for their position on Russian officers' proposed presence in the missile and radar bases the US wants to site in Poland and the Czech Republic. The statement was issued in response to a recent Associated Press report from Prague, according to which Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar and Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Przemysław Grudziński said their countries could agree to Russian inspections at the bases only on a reciprocal basis. In a special communiqué, the Russian Foreign Ministry expresses surprise that the Poles and Czechs talk to Russia through the press. The statement states categorically that Russian experts' presence at the missile defence bases 'cannot be subject to any negotiations' and that 'no conditions' can be made on the issue. It adds that Moscow wants permanent presence rather than just temporary inspections, which US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates offered Moscow a year ago. Then the idea, because of the West, started changing and, as the Russian Foreign Ministry's statement reads, 'evolved into degenerate forms'. The most recent development in this evolution are, according to Moscow, Poland and Czech Republic's demands for their officers to be allowed to inspect Russian missile launch sites or military bases in the Kaliningrad enclave. Such demands, the statement says, reflect a 'lack of fundamental logic' and show that Poland and Czech Republic 'do not need' any dialogue with Russia. |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #3 GOOD FOR SCARING THE CANUCKS = MACKENZIE BROTHERS LOL! Hosers! |
| Posted by: mrp 2008-09-29 20:25 |
| #2 TOPIX > RUSSIA: US-DOMINATED UNIPOLAR WORLD IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE; + MEDVEDEV: RUSSIAN NAVY WILL GET NEW SUBS WITH CRUISE MISSLES. As argued or inferred times before, iff the RUSS = RUSS NAVY, + VLADVEDEV, wish to offset US GMD, one way is to employ VARIOUSLY ARMED ARSENAL/FIRE SHIPS [Mother Ships] among other in select areas off the US Coasts, AS PART OF BATTLESPACE TASK GROUPS-FORCES. These vessels could be armed wid TLCMS, MRV Ballistic Missles, Armed UVS, even Armed DIRIGIBLES. RUSS ANNEXATION OF ITS ARCTIC CLAIMS > Russ can build both LAND MISSLE BASES + OFFSHORE MISSLE/ARSENAL STATIONS [Oil platform = WW2 SEA FORTS]. GOOD FOR SCARING THE CANUCKS = MACKENZIE BROTHERS, + INDUCING ALLEGED FINANCIALLY TRUBLED WASHINGTON DC TO SPEND $$$ IT DOESN'T HAVE??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-29 20:22 |
| #1 I imagine that both the Czechs and the Poles have some truly hair curling words to express what they think about Russian logic. Probably something involving the offspring of a Russian Orthodox priests' prostitutes' dog. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-09-29 14:22 |