El muñeco de la
foto es Jens Stoltenberg, Secretario General de la NATO, o sea el delegado
europeo del Imperio. Esta semana frunció esfínteres diversos y pidió audiencia a los
rusos, que la semana pasada le hicieron saber (vuelos rasantes de aviones de
guerra mediante) su desagrado ante las reiteradas insolencias de la flota
báltica del Imperio. Nada que la prensa de Occidente vaya a decir, claro, pero
es bueno que lo sepamos todos. Al respecto, leemos esta nota de Peter Korzun
para Strategic Culture Foundation:
Título: NATO
Resumes Dialogue with Russia
Epígrafe: NATO
and Russia held their highest level talks in nearly two years on April 20 in a
bid to ease tensions and renew regular contacts.
Texto: It was the
first meeting of the Russia-NATO Council (RNC), established in 2002, ever since
the Alliance cut off all ties with Moscow over Ukraine in early 2014. With RNC
activities suspended, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has met with
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on several occasions in recent years.
Tensions have
flared in the past week, involving the US military and Russian planes in the
Baltic Sea. Russian warplanes flew over an US missile destroyer close to the
Baltic Fleet home base in what the US called a «simulated attack». In another
incident a US spy plane was intercepted by a fighter in the vicinity of
Russia’s border. The US never explained the reason for coming so close to
Russia’s coast.
Moscow blames
NATO for increasing the risk of conflict by provocatively increasing the military
presence in Eastern Europe.
According to
Alexander Grushko, Russia’s ambassador to NATO, «Policy and military planning
of NATO that base on deterrence of Russia are incompatible with any plans to
create confidence-building measures». He believes that the dialogue on
strengthening trust is impossible without reduction of NATO’s presence at
Russia’s borders.
With the next
NATO summit in Warsaw just three months away, an increasingly militarized line
dividing Russia and the Alliance is in place, running along the eastern
frontier of the Baltic States, Poland’s border along the Bug River boundary,
and farther south along the frontier of the Black Sea NATO members. Russia
regards the eastern European reinforcements as US-led aggression, an attempt to
encircle it like it was in the days of Cold War.
All cooperation
projects, including Afghanistan and the fight against terrorism, have been
suspended.
Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out that it was NATO’s idea to freeze the
relations and now the Alliance «judged it necessary to contact us again».
«But, and we have
made them understand this clearly, we cannot act as if it is ‘business as
usual’», Lavrov said after talks with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault
in Moscow.
The Russia-NATO
talks, which ran more than 90 minutes over schedule, also focused on
implementing the Minsk ceasefire accords in Ukraine and the situation in
Afghanistan.
The parties
failed to bridge the differences. No decisions were announced by the end of the
meeting.
«NATO and Russia
have profound and persistent differences», Stoltenberg said. «Today’s meeting
did not change that».
He added that,
despite the existing differences, it was important to keep channels of
communication open.
German Foreign
Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the meeting was not expected to be simple
and harmonious. «But given the large number of difficult issues, this dialogue
has a value in itself and should be continued», he said in a statement.
Nobody expected
the event to be a diplomatic breakthrough. It was clear from the start there
would be no definite results and no documents signed. The meeting itself,
convened upon NATO’s initiative, testifies to the fact that the Alliance openly
admitted the failure of its policy to isolate Russia or tackle any major
international problem without it.
The fact that the
event happened at all marks a significant climb-down – and not by Russia. The
particular initiative, the drastic change of policy that revived the Russia-NATO
Council, came from the Alliance itself. NATO cut off the channels of
communications and the organization initiated the process to mend the fences.
It has taken place because NATO has decided that putting the dialogue back on
track meets its interests.
To this extent,
the event represents not only a serious diplomatic victory for Russia, but also
a victory for realism.
This conclusion
is confirmed by the Russia-US cybersecurity meeting to take place on April 21.
Upon the US initiative, the two powers renew talks on a global security issue.
With serious
difference set aside, the West and Russia are back in business with each other.
Noto que su lenguaje se ha vuelto algo soéz ¿la urgencia de los tiempos?
ResponderEliminarTal vez. De todos modos, un error imperdonable de mi parte. No volverá a suceder!
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Astroboy
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