Nato supports Ukraine's territorial integrity against Russian occupation
03.03.14
@ 09:27
BRUSSELS -
The allied countries under Nato command have condemned Russia’s military
occupation of
Ukraine’s Crimea, as world leaders threaten to oust Moscow from the G8 economic
club.
Nato
says military action against Ukraine by forces of the Russian
Federation is
a breach of international law (Photo: Nato)
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“Nato
allies will continue to support Ukrainian sovereignty, independence, territorial
integrity,” said the North Atlantic
Council,
Nato’s main decision-making body, on Sunday (2 March), in a
statement.
It
added that Ukrainian people have a right to determine their own future “without
outside interference.”
Ukraine
is not a member of Nato and the military bloc is not obliged to come to its
aid.
But
for their part, two Nato members, Lithuania and Poland, had called for the NAC
meeting citing article 4 of the Nato treaty, saying that they themselves feel
that their own “ territorial integrity, political independence or security” is
under threat due to the events in Ukraine.
Some
6,000 Russian airborne and ground troops poured into the peninsula over
the weekend,
with reinforcements still arriving as Ukraine’s interim government put its
military on high combat alert.
Ukrainian
military bases in Crimea are now surrounded by Russian troops and local militia
and Ukrainian soldiers are being urged to defect.
Some
already have: Denys Berezovsky, who was appointed Ukraine’s Rear Admiral on
Saturday by the interim government in Kiev, proclaimed his allegiance on Sunday
“to the supreme commander of the autonomous republic of
Crimea.”
Berezovsky
told Ukrainian naval
forces in
the area to stand down and reject any orders from Kiev.
Meanwhile,
the US conceded that Russia now has “complete operational control of the Crimean
peninsula” as Western leaders try to put pressure on Moscow to withdraw troops
by threatening economic and political isolation.
Russia’s
G8 partners, for their part, decided to suspend an upcoming summit in Sochi in
June.
“We
are united in supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and
its right
to chooseits
own future,” said the seven industrialised nations in a
statement.
The
leaders, representing Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United
Kingdom,
the United States and the EU, said they will not engage with Russia on the
summit "until the environment comes back where the G8 is able to have meaningful
discussion.”
Ideas
floated by US senior administration officials include kicking Russia out of the
economic club, which it joined in 1998.
But
excluding Russia from G8 altogether has received a lukewarm response from
Germany’s foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Steinmeier
said the economic
forum is
the only one in which the West can speak directly with
Russia.
“Should
we really give up this unique format?”, he told German public broadcaster
ARD.
Germany
relies heavily on Russian natural gas produced and delivered by Russia’s
state-owned Gazprom.
Putin,
for his part, has justified the troop deployment on the ground to protect the
lives of Russian citizens stationed in the peninsula following last week’s
overthrow of Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovych.
German
Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Barack Obama by telephone on Sunday she
believed Putin, a former KGB colonel, is “in another world,” while Ukraine’s
interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned that the country is “on the
brink of disaster.”
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