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Comment: Clear warnings to the Ukraine
Germany and France pull together: they demand a clear commitment to reforms in Kiev. There is currently more than just the European support on the game, writes Bernd Johann.
The foreign Minister Ayrault (France), Klimkin (Ukraine) and Steinmeier (Germany) during their Meeting in Kiev (v. li.)
It is an unusual process, if diplomats in Public their concern about the future of a country articulate. The foreign Ministers of Germany and France have their concern in strong words made air. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault urged Ukraine to urgently return to the reform process.
Previously they had in a joint article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung made clear how much of the Ukraine is currently on the game.
In a press conference in Kiev, they called the Ukrainian politicians once again on the path of Reform continue. They warned about what could happen if this process fails. The two foreign Ministers are pursuing currently, as well as the European Public with care, how the political Elite in Ukraine itself dismantled, and in quarrels it sinks. Closer device the country to the brink of political and economic collapse.
Threats from the outside as from the inside
Still is the state sovereignty of Ukraine from the outside threatened. The peace process of Minsk occurs on the spot. In spite of a closed ceasefire in the Donbass next shot. Not even this first point of the thirteen goals of a comprehensive OSCE Minsk agreements is really implemented. There is no Alternative to Minsk. The contract is currently the only recognizable political solution to the war that Ukraine cannot win, as long as Russia separatists in the Donbass militarily supported.
Bernd Johann heads the Ukrainian editorial office of DW
In addition, the severe domestic political crisis. It is home-made. Irresponsible politicians from the camp of the Opposition as well as from the Regierungsfraktionen have your country into new Chaos. Politically Ukraine is therefore virtually ungovernable. And also on the international stage, it is currently hardly as a Partner.
As before, the politics in the Ukraine by the personal power interests and Strippenziehern in the Background. These people abuse it, primarily the Parliament, as a lobbyist, Bude. This also includes the rich oligarchs, in Alliance with the politics already for years, the Land dominated and similar to those in Russia for almost blank areas have prevailed. At the same time, the nationalists and other right-wing forces in the Ukrainian politics by undemocratic means and intolerant ideologies on a Sonderweg in Europe to bring you to isolate.
Reforms need a stable majorities
By the crisis are the incumbent Prime Minister Arseni Jazenjuk and President Petro Poroshenko had been badly damaged. And yet you are there, the next the responsibility in the search for a political way out. A continuation of the reforms will only give when again stable majorities.
The country has no time for elections. They will be discussed, because some politicians hope, that you can benefit from it. Politically, economically and financially would, however, elections are a disaster. The Ukraine would, over weeks and months through the election campaign, blocked. Donors like the International monetary Fund, the European Commission and the many States, the Ukraine, previously supported, have good reasons, if your financial and economic aid for the Ukraine altogether, as long as the Phase of political uncertainty lasts.
Only the rapid formation of a new government can be worse for the Ukraine to avoid it. France and Germany will continue to offer their support. Two days have you taken the time to with the politicians in Kiev to speak. But must Act in the Ukraine itself. If this is not done, the course of Reform in Ukraine will fail. Only Russia and the separatists could benefit from.
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