Munich Security Conference
The day of the Falcon
Munich was on Friday still a place of hope for Syria. The was on Saturday at the security conference to be steamed. The contrasts between the West and Russia were clear. Matthias von Hein reported.
A hint of shock was blowing through the corridors and halls of the Bavarian court. Expected, had hoped for one of Russia’s Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev (in the article above) a commitment to a rapid end of the bombing in Syria. Instead, it was Russia’s Premier aggressive Hardliner: He grounded Russia and the West into a
a new cold war. A statement by the German foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier later mitigate tried: Medvedev, I have only to warn you want, that the circumstances are so cool.
Medvedev had also denied that Russian aircraft would be in Syria civilians to bomb. A statement, Kenneth Roth, the Zornesröte in the face shoot. The Director of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, told Deutsche Welle: “It is as if Medvedev is in a different reality of life. The reports by Human Rights Watch documented, for example, the use of
Cluster bombs into civilian-inhabited areas. These weapons kill indiscriminately and are almost everywhere in the world is forbidden.”
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Pitch in Munich is even worse
At all, the lines of conflict between the West and Russia on this second day of the Munich security conference with terrifying clarity: Not only in terms of Syria, also in relation to the Ukraine. Already had in the Morning, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Russia sharply attacked. Russia destabilisiere the order of Europe, said Stoltenberg. Russia’s military objectives at an intimidation of the Eastern States. NATO will respond to this challenge with the greatest reinforcement of the military for decades. Also, the United States would have more troops and equipment in Europe to deploy. Stoltenberg recalled that the deterrence of NATO also has a nuclear component have. At the same time stretched the NATO Secretary General is also the Hand in the direction of Moscow: The NATO wool constructive relations with Russia. The should also be by both sides envisaged revival of the NATO-Russia Council. The planned establishment of a missile defence system, so Stoltenberg, was not directed against Russia. The conclusion of the Norwegian: We need more of both, armor and Dialog.
Russia and the guilt of the other
When, finally, Medvedev on the Podium place was taken, was diagnosed with it a drastic deterioration of relations between the West and Russia – and made alone, the West is responsible for this. He mocked himself about how Russia is constantly the biggest threat to stylized will – as the Secretary General of NATO Stoltenberg shortly before had done.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
In the Ukraine sees Medvedev Kiev with the implementation of the Minsk II agreement, is in default. To Syria, said Medvedev, there must be a uniform state. The world could no further, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan afford. Medvedev made foreign intervention, and, implicitly, the West is responsible for the war in Syria. Under terms of a state visit six years ago, he explained, at that time was Syria a prosperous Land had been. “Without interference from the outside would have Syria can continue to develop,” continued the Russian Premier continued. But Western politicians have repeatedly said that Assad had to go. “Now we have civil war,” said the Russian Prime Minister.
The IS he invoked as a common enemy and terrorism as a whole. But Medvedev warned: “We cannot go into the good and the bad, moderates and radicals, terrorists divide.” This, however, means that in the event of Syria: Any armed Opposition against ruler Bashar al-Assad is terrorism. And so, from the Russian point of view, legitimate targets of attacks. Medvedev criticized also the announcement of Saudi Arabia, it was for the deployment of ground troops in Syria to be ready. No one should be with ground forces threaten.
Fruitless debate about military strategy in Syria
A Podium with US Secretary of state John Kerry, German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later on, the contradictions cannot be overcome. Kerry urged Russia to change its military strategy in Syria. “So far, most of the Russian attacks on legitimate opposition groups,” said Kerry at the Munich conference. Lavrov responded angrily: “Obviously, it is mainly about the air raids by Russian forces to end.” Kerry warned of a Failure of the agreement on a ceasefire. You stand at a turning point. “The decisions we make in the coming days, weeks and a few months to be made, could the war in Syria to end,” said the US Secretary of state. “Or you can lead us in the future with other very difficult options to be faced.”
And it becomes more complicated: Because, later reported also in the conference hotel Bayerischer Hof, the Turkish foreign Minister, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, in an Interview to word: How Saudi Arabia was considering also the Nato-member Turkey, the deployment of ground troops to Syria to fight the IS. Such a use could be on the side of Saudi Arabia to take place, so Cavusoglu. Soon made to the public in Munich, then have the message the round, Turkish fighter planes attacked in Northern Syria Kurdish associations. Meanwhile, marched a few hundred meters away, around 1500 people against the security conference.