Uganda sucked into US,Russia row over Ukraine
By TABU BUTAGIRA Posted Thursday, March 13 2014 at 20:43 KAMPALA. Uganda yesterday sucked itself into ongoing sabre-rattling between the West and Kremlin over the crisis in Ukraine, by circulating to local media a Russia government statement highly critical of the US government. Mr Jerome Kansiime, an official of Uganda Media Centre, the governments communications clearing house in Kampala, sent out the statement in which Russias Foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich accuses Washington of hypocrisy for challenging their intervention in Crimea, a breakaway region of Ukraine. The US and European allies supported the ouster of Kremlin-allied Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych in February, and have since been at loggerheads with Putins administration re-asserting itself over the neighbouring former Soviet state. It is evident that Washington is still not able to adequately perceive the development of events, if they go against American templates, Mr Lukashevich said in a strongly-worded statement. They cannot overcome themselves, accept that it is not possible to always dictate their own will everywhere and play their usual role of an infallible judge, who has the last word. The US government yesterday said it stood by its Statement of Fact on the Ukrainian political crisis, published on March 5, which point-by-point rebuts, as not backed by evidence, all of President Vladimir Putins 10 reasons justifying Russias actions. The grounds are fictitious, according to President Obamas administration. It said there is no evidence that lives of ethnic Russians in Crimea region are at risk and, that Kremlin violated the sovereignty of Ukraine by marching troops into Crimea and planning its secession referendum on Sunday, this week. Mr Daniel Travis, the Spokesman of the US embassy in Kampala, said: The Russian governments actions in Ukraine are illegal. In addition, I am surprised to see this statement coming via the Uganda Media Centre, which I had understood to be the venue for official views and pronouncements of the Ugandan government. The centres executive director, Ofwono Opondo, said they have an understanding to help foreign embassies on publicity request, but that does not show we have interests or have taken sides. In Kampala, strategic security analyst Simon Mulongo said the super-powers are unlikely to go to war in spite of intensified military activity - troop-build ups and Nato reconnaissance <http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Uganda-sucked-into-US-Russia-row-ove r-Ukraine/-/688334/2243176/-/122cpkmz/-/index.html> flightsDescription: http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png over neighbouring Poland and Romania. Their national interests supersede. Russia will have its way and the US-led criticism wont translate into warfare because US has no moral authority to condemn Russia [over invasion of sovereign countries], he said. In yesterdays statement, Russian officials said they can find many examples of military interventions by the United States in places, which were located far away from their national borders, when there was no real threat to the security of the United States. The Vietnam War took the lives of two million of the local population, without mentioning the totally destroyed country and poisoned environment. Under the pretext of protecting their nationals, who were in areas of conflict, the United States intruded into Lebanon in 1958, into the Dominican Republic, in 1965, attacked tiny Grenada in 1983, bombed Libya in 1986, and occupied Panama three years later. Nevertheless they dare to rebuke Russia for armed aggression, when it intervenes on behalf of its compatriots, who make up the majority of the Crimean population, the statement said. The US has no and cannot have any moral right to moral preaching with regard to observation of international laws and respect for other countries sovereignty, Mr Alexander Lukashevich, Russia Foreign Ministry Spokesman Stern warning German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday warned Russia of massive damage, politically and financially, if it stays the course of belligerence. Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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