Saturday, April 12, 2014

Russia's 4 Conditions To Resume Aid To Ukraine

Pro-Russia protesters gather in front of a barricade outside a regional government building in Donetsk, April 10, 2014. (Reuters / Konstantin Chernichkin)

Russia Sets 4 Conditions In Return For Aid To Ukraine -- RT

Ukraine should recognize Crimea’s independence, reform the country’s constitution, regulate the crisis in its eastern regions and guarantee the rights of Russian speakers if it wants to get financial help from Moscow, Russia’s finance minister has said.

“If Ukraine fulfils these four conditions, then Russia will be able to propose further steps on additional help both on financial and gas issues,” Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said after meeting with his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schauble, in Washington.

Deescalating tensions in eastern Ukraine should be peaceful, based on Ukraine’s legislation, “without discrimination against Russian-speaking population, without victims and bloodshed,” Siluanov said.

It is necessary for Ukraine to conduct constitutional reform, hold legitimate presidential elections and “form a government with which one may negotiate,” he said.

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My Comment: Here is an easy prediction .... Ukraine is not going to accept any of these conditions.

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