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Il Legno storto, quotidiano online - Politica, Attualit�, Cultura - Forum della strategia europea a Yalta: tra Ucraina e Unione rottura definitivaEuropean strategy Forum in Yalta: between Ukraine and Eu final break
You would have to talk about the economy, the main theme was the geopolitical fate of Ukraine that it appears increasingly distant from the community. During the opening of the Summit of Yalta European strategy – YES, International Festival participated by hundreds of prominent personalities of politics and world finance, organized by the Ukrainian businessman Viktor Pinchuk – to keep bench was the strong criticism expressed by the European Union and the United States of America with regard to the observance of civil rights and democracy by the landlord, President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
With a note, issued by the EU Embassy in Kyiv, the Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, and the EU Commissioner for enlargement and integration, Stefan Fule, revealed a deterioration in the situation in Ukraine with respect to the previous year, which may originate a total break in relations between Brussels and Kiev.
In particular, the three EU representatives have challenged the use of the judiciary to eliminate election competition from most feared opponents from Ukrainian President – as the Democratic Opposition Leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, and former Interior Minister, Yuri Lutsenko Alexey – and showed that only the holding of parliamentary elections can legitimise the regular fully new Ukrainian Parliament.
"The current situation makes it impossible to two opposition leaders taking part in the forthcoming parliamentary elections – the note of the three EU representatives. They were convicted following trials in which the standards of fairness, transparency and regularity were not respected. "
Last but not least was the stance of former Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, who invited the Ukrainian people to exert pressure on its authority to ensure that the country is definitively excluded from the Western Community. Clear was also hired by Rice's behavior at the end of the first round table of the event. After the debate, she approached the stage to greet the Turkish Premier Erdogan Tajip, openly ignoring President Yanukovych.
"I believe in the strength of democratic institutions and in the will of the people," said Rice – all over the world look at case Tymoshenko, his political detention, and the forthcoming parliamentary elections with extreme caution ".
The EU stance, which has so far claimed to await the outcome of the parliamentary consultation before definitively close the door to Ukraine, tastes like real red card for Yanukovych even before the end of the elections by the end of October.
However, it seems to be definitively halted the signing of the association agreement EU-Ukraine: document whereby Brussels is ready to grant to Kyiv privileged partner status and to open a free trade area to supplement the Ukrainian economy in Europe.
Following the arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko, December 19, 2011 the European Commission froze the launch of the agreement, considering the Ukrainian authorities not mature enough in terms of respect for human rights and democracy to be admitted into the political community of the old continent.
Yanukovych looks to Russia and Eurasia
The West's concern for the anti-democratic behaviour of Yanukovych has read even in questions posed to the Ukrainian President by the moderator of the round table, the ex-President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski.
The Polish head of State Emeritus – that has always tried to maintain good relations with Ukraine despite the flagrant violations of democracy on the banks of Dnipro – could not refrain from raising the matter related to the detention policy of Yulia Tymoshenko, without, however, getting no response from Yanukovych.
For its part, the Ukrainian President, while acknowledging the deadlock that existed in the relations between the European Union and Ukraine in response to demands by Brussels on case Tymoshenko, was of the opinion that Kyiv is approaching European standards thanks to the reforms made by the Government which he established after his ascent to power in February 2010. But Yanukovych's position proved to be far from Europe, and much closer to Eurasia. During his speech, the Ukrainian President has expressed the wish to strengthen his country's presence in Eurasian integration processes taken by Putin's Russia to enshrine the political hegemony of Moscow in the former-Soviet.
Among the priorities of foreign policy and economic of Ukraine, Yanukovych has contemplated respectively Russia, China and India, without any mention to the EU. In addition, the Ukrainian head of State declared officially to aspire to achieve for the Ukraine Country observer status of the Eurasian Union – today composed of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.