*Let us close down Agha Khan*
Mr Agha Khan's Media of Daily Nation/Monitor enables him to loot EA. It is
a Media hostile to the peoples' interests.Just one of the many cases, Hon
Sam Kutesa, m7's Foreign Minister, talked about 'The Africa High Command',
one of the original noble goals of the OAU. It is Daily Nation and Monitor
that jumped in viciously to silence Minister Sam Kutesa.Why does m7 not
close them down? Under what kind of blackmail can he be, not being able to
touch them?
Now this same media is for Ukrainian bandits for warmongering, as you see
below?Where is our sovereignty in EA?M Potosi.........
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Putin’s aim is to annex Ukraine: Stop him
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Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko shakes hands with cadets
of the Academy of Frontier Troops during her campaigning trip to western
Ukrainian city of Khmelnitsky on April 9, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ TYMOSHENKO
PRESS-SERVICE/ ALEXANDER PROKOPENKO
In Summary
- Despite the Russian army massed against us, we are embarking on an
election campaign.
- For Putin, a federal system is a means to make mischief and ultimately
incorporate Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions into the Russian
Federation.
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*By Yuliya Tymoshenko *
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The quiet period between the declaration of war in September 1939 and the
Nazi blitz on Belgium and France in May 1940 is often called “The Phony
War.”
Since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and began massing
troops<http://www.nation.co.ke/news/world/West-and-Russia-lock-horns-on-Ukraine-at-UN-crisis-talks/-/1068/2278854/-/4yu3gz/-/index.html>and
armoured columns on our eastern border, we in Ukraine have been living
through a “phony peace.”
There is nothing phony, however, about the efforts we Ukrainians are now
making to defend our country and our democracy. Our young men and women are
volunteering for military service like never before.
Our government has negotiated a standby loan agreement with the IMF that
will give us some of the tools that we need to get our financial and
economic house in order.
That agreement will also impose real economic pain, but Ukrainians are
willing to pay the price to preserve our independence.
After a time of neglect, a time when we – like the rest of Europe –
believed that the continent’s borders would never again be changed by
force, we are also increasing our defence spending, despite our economy’s
precarious state. There will be no more surrendering of sovereign Ukrainian
territory. Not an inch.
READ: Ukraine launches 'anti-terrorist' operation in
Slavyansk<http://www.nation.co.ke/news/world/Ukraine-Slavyansk-Operation-Russia/-/1068/2277880/-/sh3djb/-/index.html>
Most important, despite the Russian army massed against us, we are
embarking on an election campaign. Next month, Ukraine’s citizens will
freely choose a new president – the best rebuke possible to Russian
propaganda about our supposed failure to uphold democracy.
And yet, as Ukrainians work to rebuild our country after Viktor
Yanukovych’s predatory rule, we are facing a new threat, in the form of a
“peace offensive” – that old staple of Soviet diplomacy designed to
undermine Western resolve.
*PUTIN'S GAMBIT*
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent phone call to US President Barack
Obama to seek renewed diplomatic talks, followed by a Russian white paper
on how to resolve a crisis of the Kremlin’s making, is in fact offensive to
peace.
Putin’s gambit is akin to the infamous Yalta Conference on Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt complicit in a division of Europe that enslaved half
of the continent for almost a half-century.
Today, Putin is seeking to make the West complicit in the dismemberment of
Ukraine by negotiating a Kremlin-designed federal constitution that would
create a dozen Crimeas – bite-size chunks that Russia could devour more
easily later.
Of course, federalism sounds like a good thing. Devolving political power
closer to where people actually live is always appealing, and usually
effective. But the wellbeing of Ukrainian democracy is not what Putin has
in mind; for him, a federal system is a means to make mischief and
ultimately incorporate Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions into the
Russian Federation.
One has only to look at the Russian proposal’s fine print: Ukraine’s new
federal units would have a powerful say over “Ukraine’s foreign-policy
direction.” That provision would enable Putin to try to coerce and
manipulate Russian-speaking regions into vetoing the country’s European
future.
Ukraine’s constitutional structure is for its citizens to decide. Russia
can have no say in it – and nor should other countries, however helpful
they wish to be.
*Ms Tymoshenko, twice prime minister of Ukraine and a former political
prisoner, is a candidate for president in the May election. (C): Project
Syndicate, 2014. www.project-syndicate.org
<http://www.project-syndicate.org>*
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