Tema destacado del Miércoles, 13. Agosto 2008

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How to go on in the Caucasus?

The war in the Caucasus is over. Moscow ordered a stop to all fighting, and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has agreed to an EU peace plan after talks with EU Council President Nicolas Sarkozy. What should Europe do next?

Sydsvenskan - Suecia

"How should the West react" to the conflict in the Caucasus? ask US diplomat Richard Holbrooke and Ronald D. Asmus, director of the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in the pages of the daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet. "First of all, we can help Georgia defend its territorial integrity within its own borders and rebuild Tbilisi. Secondly, the West should realize that Georgia's neighbour Russia is no neutral peacekeeper. For a long time now, Moscow has been using its international mandate to carry out neo-imperialist policies. Instead of allowing Russia this mandate, the West should insist that neutral UN troops monitor the ceasefire. Thirdly, the West should work actively to counter Russia's influence on its neighbours – particularly on Ukraine, which in all probability is Moscow's next target for extending its influence. The USA and EU must be more clear on this point, so that Ukraine and Georgia are not considered some kind of grey zone." (13/08/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Relaciones internacionales, » Política de seguridad / Crisis / Guerras, » Suecia, » Rusia, » Georgia

The Guardian - Gran Bretaña

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev defends Russia's action in The Guardian: "Russia had to respond. To accuse it of aggression against 'small, defenceless Georgia' is not just hypocritical but shows a lack of humanity. ... By declaring the Caucasus, a region that is thousands of miles from the American continent, a sphere of its 'national interest', the US made a serious blunder. Of course, peace in the Caucasus is in everyone's interest. But it is simply common sense to recognise that Russia is rooted there by common geography and centuries of history. Russia is not seeking territorial expansion, but it has legitimate interests in this region. ... The international community's long-term aim could be to create a sub-regional system of security and cooperation that would make any provocation, and the very possibility of crises such as this one, impossible. Building this type of system would be challenging and could only be accomplished with the cooperation of the region's countries themselves. Nations outside the region could perhaps help, too - but only if they take a fair and objective stance." (13/08/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Política de seguridad / Crisis / Guerras, » Rusia, » Georgia
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De Standaard - Bélgica

De Standaard newspaper criticises European reactions to the conflict in the Caucasus. "The justifications for the Russian action that we are now hearing from some Europeans, led by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, must simply be condemned. Europe is letting itself be blackmailed by Moscow, which is only too ready to brandish the weapon of energy [supplies]. If Europe stands for anything, it must also defend its values. It has the moral duty to accompany countries on its borders on the difficult path to development, freedom and democracy. ... Anyone who defends Putin's action must accept that more is at stake here than the status of a small smuggler's den. How believable is the European Union, if it allows small countries on its borders to be forced back into the big Russian empire?" (13/08/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Política de seguridad / Crisis / Guerras, » Rusia, » Europa
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La Repubblica - Italia

The current President of the European Council, Nicolas Sarkozy, has proposed the deployment of an EU peacekeeping force to the Caucaus. The daily paper La Repubblica is musing over a possible EU peace mission: "It is out of the question that Nicolas Sarkozy's proposed peace troops would march under the flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, given Russian irritation at Tbilisi's bid for acceptance in NATO." Most likely, "troops would be provided by those western countries that have the best relationship with Russia - Germany, France and Italy. ... Understandably, Russia does not want participation from America, the countries of the former Warsaw Pact or the former Soviet republics. This will also mean disappointment for Estonia, one of the first countries that offered assistance. ... As in Lebanon, the mission will be carried out in consultation with the rival states. It will not forcefully impose peace, but rather monitor and safeguard it." (13/08/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Relaciones internacionales, » Política de seguridad / Crisis / Guerras, » Política de la UE, » Rusia, » Europa, » Georgia
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Les Echos - Francia

The daily paper Les Echos analyses the decisive role the European Union could play regarding the conflict in the Caucasus – despite the differing positions of member states: "President Sarkozy's shuttle diplomacy between Moscow and Tbilisi is highly risky. President Bush's weakness at the sad conclusion of his mandate puts the European Union in the front row when it comes to replacing weapons with diplomacy in Georgia. ... The EU 27 hold all the aces when it comes to getting the Kremlin's ear. Especially in the economic sense. ... There is still time before Moscow renounces international investors, of whom the Europeans are the upper echelon. ... Ultimately, Russia wants to bring an end to its years of sitting on the fence, and enter the World Trade Organization. ... But the question remains as to whether the Europeans will play their aces, which assumes they will speak with one voice. And there is nothing less certain than that." (13/08/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Política de seguridad / Crisis / Guerras, » Rusia, » Europa, » Georgia
Todos los textos disponible de » Françoise Crouïgneau

Gazeta Wyborcza - Polonia

Poland's left-liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza criticizes EU-Council President Nicolas Sarkozy as having been too soft on his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow. Sarkozy did not speak for Poles: "Old Europe does not listen to Poles, Lithuanians and Ukrainians. Old Europe does not want to mess things up with Russia, and it does not consider the inviolability of Georgia's borders important enough to aggravate relations with Russia. ... We can explain forever that [our position] has nothing to do with Russophobia, but rather with years of experience. So, after Georgia, if the time comes [for Russia] to browbeat Europe over Moldavia and other states, we will happily be able to say 'we told you so.' We will still have our self-respect. Only: Poland's security will be guaranteed by real alliances built on common interests, and not by moral arguments." (13/08/2008)

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Más de la revista de prensa sobre el tema » Política de seguridad / Crisis / Guerras, » Política de la UE, » Polonia, » Rusia, » Europa, » Georgia
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