Ceasefire van de tekensGeorgië van Rusland overeenkomst
guardian.co.uk | De Russische voorzitter, Dmitry Medvedev, heeft een ceasefire pact ondertekend om vijandigheden in Georgië te beëindigen.
De overeenkomst verzoekt Russische troepen om zich van Georgië terug te trekken maar ook verleent hen beperkte patrouilles binnen het land.
De Georgische voorzitter, Mikheil Saakashvili, ondertekende gisteren met tegenzin het plan terwijl het beschuldigen van de Russen van het zijn de „kwade“ en „21ste eeuwBarbaren“.
Rusland had geweigerd om hun krachten terug te trekken tot Saakashvili het zes-punt ceasefire plan ondertekende dat brokered door de Franse voorzitter, Nicolas Sarkozy, vroeger deze week was.
Bronnen van het Kremlin bevestigden vandaag dat Rusland het pact had ondertekend.
De „voorzitter informeerde deelnemers van de Veiligheidsraadvergadering dat hij nu net het zes-punt plan had ondertekend,“ zei de belangrijkste spreekbuis van het Kremlin, Natalia Timakova.
In het kader van het plan, blijven sommige gevoelskwesties open aan interpretatie - omvattend of Georgië troepen terug in gebieden van Zuid-Ossetië kan sturen.
De ceasefire overeenkomst zou internationale besprekingen moeten ertoe aan zetten om de status van Zuid-Ossetië en Abchazië te bepalen.
Ondertussen, gisteren verhoogde het risico van een nieuwe era van oost-west confrontatie die door de invasie van Rusland van Georgië wordt teweeggebracht toen Moskou zich het recht voorbe*houdde een kernaanval op Polen te lanceren omdat het met de raketten van de gastheerV.S. als deel van het de raketschild van het Pentagoon akkoord ging.
Aangezien Washington Rusland van „intimidatie en intimidatie“ in Georgië beschuldigde, zette de de afgevaardigdeleider van Rusland van personeel Warshau aan en zei het aan een Russische raketaanval wegens het pact van de Donderdag met de V.S. op het project van de raketdefensie kwetsbaar was.
„Door op te stellen, stelt Polen zich aan een staking bloot - 100%,“ waarschuwde Kolonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn. Hij voegde toe dat de de veiligheidsdoctrine van Rusland het toestond om kernwapens tegen een actieve bondgenoot van een kernmacht zoals Amerika te gebruiken.
De waarschuwing verergerde de reeds sombere stemming in relaties tussen Moskou en het westen dat door de schok van de eerste invasie van post-sovjetRusland van een derde land wordt veroorzaakt.
Er waren karige tekens ter plaatse van militaire activiteit in Georgië, maar noch daar verbonden om het even welke tekens zich ertoe van de Russische terugtrekking op Dinsdag in het kader van ceasefire termijnen die door de Europese Unie worden bemiddeld.
In plaats daarvan, was de nadruk op een vlaag van diplomatieke activiteit die scherpe verschillen blootstelde op hoe Washington en Berlijn de crisis in de Kaukasus zien.
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, went to Tbilisi to bolster Georgia against the Russians as President George Bush denounced Russian “bullying and intimidation” as “unacceptable”.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, met Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev on the Black Sea close to Georgia’s borders and sent quite a different message, offering a mild rebuke of Moscow.
“Some of Russia’s actions were not proportionate,” she said.
Unlike the Americans and some European states who are saying the Russians should face “consequences” for their invasion, Merkel said negotiations with Moscow on a whole range of issues would continue as before and spread the blame for the conflict. “It is rare that all the blame is on one side. In fact, both sides are probably to blame. That is very important to understand,” she said.
In Tbilisi, Rice was much more forthright, saying that the invasion had “profound implications for Russia … This calls into question what role Russia really plans to play in international politics.
“You can’t be a responsible member of institutions which are democratic and underscore democratic values and on the other hand act in this way against one of your neighbours.”
Saakashvili said: “Russia has every time been testing the reaction of the west. It’s going to replicate what happened in Georgia elsewhere,” said Saakashvili. “We are looking evil directly in the eye. Today this evil is very strong, and very dangerous for everybody, not just for us.”
Rice’s show of solidarity with Georgia’s beleaguered president was theatrically undermined when Russia dispatched a column of armoured personnel carriers towards the Georgian capital.
As the talks were taking place, 10 armoured personnel carriers laden with Russian troops set off from Gori, penetrating to within 20 miles of Tbilisi.
“Georgia has been attacked. Russian forces need to leave Georgia at once,” said Rice. The withdrawal “must take place, and take place now … This is no longer 1968,” she added in reference to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia 40 years ago next week.
The ceasefire terms favour the Russians who routed the Georgians. But the secretary of state argued the plan would not affect negotiations over the central territorial dispute between Georgia and the two breakaway pro-Russian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The deal allows Russian troops to remain in the two provinces and to mount patrols and “take additional security measures” on Georgian territory beyond the two enclaves.
Senior Russians continued to insist yesterday that Russian troops had not stepped outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia despite the fact they have been deep inside Georgian territory in several places all week.
“Our ground forces never crossed the border of the conflict zone,” said Sergei Ivanov, the deputy prime minister.
Moscow also indicated it would resist possible European attempts to deploy international peacekeepers in the contested territories.
“We are not against international peacekeepers,” the Russian president said. “But the problem is that the Abkhazians and the Ossetians do not trust anyone except Russian peacekeepers.” He also attacked the agreement between Washington and Warsaw on the missile shield and said claims that the shield was aimed at Iran were “fairy tales”
“This clearly demonstrates the deployment of new anti-missile forces in Europe has as its aim the Russian Federation,” said Medvedev. “The moment has been well chosen.”
The timing of Thursday’s agreement on missile defence means that tensions are soaring on Russia’s southern and western borders.
Polish armed forces yesterday paraded in Warsaw to mark a rare defeat of the Russians 888 years ago and President Lech Kaczynski hailed the accord on the Pentagon project as a boost for Poland’s security.
In return for hosting 10 interceptor rockets said to be intended to destroy any eventual ballistic missile attacks from Iran, Poland is to receive a battery of US Patriot missiles for its air defences and has won a mutual security pact with Washington.
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