US going wild against Geneva deal over Ukraine: Analyst
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:57AM GMT
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A political analyst says Russia remains committed to the Geneva deal recently signed in an attempt to defuse tensions in Ukraine, stressing the United States is going wild over the agreement.
“Russia is operating under an agreement, which was struck by representatives of the United States. It has done nothing to violate that whereas on the other side the President of the United States [Barack Obama] and his selected spokesman are going wild,” Lyndon La Rouche, the former US presidential candidate, told Press TV in an interview.
He added that the US president “is losing his mind” in a sense that he has no support for a policy that he seeks to “pursue with disregard for his Russian opposite numbers.”
“I think that in principle the president of the United States has disgraced himself before the international community,” Rouche said.
On April 17, Kiev’s interim government together with the United States, Russia and the European Union reached an agreement in the Swiss city of Geneva, calling for all sides to "de-escalate" the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine, where anti-Kiev protesters have seized buildings in several towns and cities.
However, hours after the signing of the accord, US President Barack Obama warned that Washington is prepared to take further action against Russia in case of a possible failure in the deal concerning the Ukrainian crisis.
The commentator blamed the US president and his Vice President Joe Biden, speaking in a sense in support of him, for provoking unrest in Eastern Ukraine.
He dismissed remarks by both American officials as threats which have “no correspondence to reality” and no consideration for the Geneva agreement.
“But now the point is the agreement was struck on behalf of the United States and agreed to by Russia. And Russia is sticking to that. The President of the United States does not like that. Concede, concede, concede and Russia is not going to concede,” Rouche pointed out.
Tensions between the Western powers and Moscow heightened after Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and formally became part of the Russian Federation following a referendum on March 16, in which nearly 97 percent of voters in Crimea said yes to reunion with Russia. |
