27.03.2005 - 18:46:43
By Ilya Milshtein
in the liberal weekly Novoye Vremya 20.03.2005
´´The Poles said this for all of us. For the whole Europe, for the whole America, for the whole West, where they found inconvenient to show their true feelings.
The Russian authority was called criminal and irresponsible in words of those diplomats.
The death of Aslan Maskhadov turned for Russia with unexpected diplomatic consequences. ´´
Poland have said this for all of us : ´´The world is tired of Russia´´
By Ilya Milshtein
in the liberal weekly Novoye Vremya 20.03.2005
´´The Poles said this for all of us. For the whole Europe, for the whole America, for the whole West, where they found inconvenient to show their true feelings.
The Russian authority was called criminal and irresponsible in words of those diplomats.
The death of Aslan Maskhadov turned for Russia with unexpected diplomatic consequences. ´´
Then the Poles issued these really tough statements.
First, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Adam Rotfeld called the murder of Maskhadov as a political mistake. Then the press secretary of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aleksander Checko.
´´Those, who carried out this murder, didn't want to allow on any peace agreement, said Checko.
This is not a simple crime, but also a political stupidity and big mistake...´´
The death of Aslan Maskhadov turned for Russia with unexpected diplomatic consequences.
It was possible to assume a rather sharp reaction of the West, but there wasn´t such thing.
Sluggish statements of the officials of the European Parliament and Americans, who for hundredth time called Moscow for some political solution to this conflict, in essence has been exhausted on this issue.
The world got tired also of Russia, and of Chechnya, therefore no top politicians were shaken or even surprized by the death of the former president of Chechnya.
In Strasbourg, they only slightly shrugged their shoulders: why the Russian authority killed this person, who among the separatists, wanted to negotiate?
The White House preferred not at all to be linked with this: there they first studied the situation for a long time after the incident in Tolstoy Yurt, and then, a relatively law rank bureaucrat from the State Department uttered: there will be no comments.
Then the Poles issued these really tough statements.
First, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Adam Rotfeld called the murder of Maskhadov as a political mistake.
This thought was expanded later by the press secretary of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aleksander Checko.
´´Those, who carried out this murder, didn't want to allow on any peace agreement, said Checko.
This is not a simple crime, but also a political stupidity and big mistake.´´
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs that´s an organization which conducts a state's policy in the world.
Therefore, no personal point of view of minister or his press secretary can be presented.
Gentlemen Rotfeld and Checko talked for the whole Poland, beginning from president Kwasniewski and ending with an average guy who voted for him.
The Russian authority was called criminal and irresponsible in words of those diplomats.
Its true, that only later, Rotfeld considered that it was necessary to explain his spokesman´s words, but he didn´t renounce this opinion.
A big scandal occured. It´s noticeable, how hard the authors of Russia´s statement kept their coolness on behalf of the department of information and press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RF.
How their hearts raced and fists clenched, deriving this incomprehension and bewilderment from the speeches of Polish colleagues.
It´s otherwise difficult to explain that passage in the press release, where it was mentioned about Maskhadov, that the acts of terror in Beslan, Moscow and other places were committed under his direct instructions.
Apparently, the other arguments were not found, so it was necessary to use bullshit ´´Rus. Lipne´´ ones.
One way or another, the relations between Russia and Poland began to freeze.
However, it was coming to this already in the last months from that day, when president Kwasniewski actively and successfully interfered in the pre election matters in Ukraine.
As a mediator, during those negotiations between the authority and the opposition, the Polish leader attained some formal reconciliation of opposing parties and the third round of elections, which were won by Yushchenko.
Putin didn´t forget and didn´t forgive Kwasniewski for his humiliation.
At the known press conference in December, he recalled to him, his alleged Komsomol past and unemployment in today´s Poland.
And a new insulting demarche happened last week: that was when the Russian authorities refused to the Poles to give any access to a majority of documents in the Katyn case, after classifying 116 from 183 volumes of the criminal case. This event produced an explosion of indignation in Poland.
It´s possible to assume that by responding on the death of Maskhadov, Warsaw was settlling their old accounts with the Kremlin.
This is correct explanation, but the other one is possible:
the Poles said this for all of us. For the whole Europe, for the whole America, for the whole West, where they found inconvenient to show their true feelings.
In fact, the tragic fate of the Chechen president, doomed for many years to be tossed between the Kremlin hawks and the Chechen wolves, vainly appealing for peace negotiations, is worthy other words than those which were heard from Washington and Strasbourg.
These words have been found in Poland. History will supplement them, remembering Aslan Maskhadov the last lawfully elected president of Chechnya, who took away into the grave the last, tiny, almost ephemeral chance for a peace resolution to this conflict. And about his senseless death in the senseless war.
Source: http://web.radicalparty.org/pressreview/print.php?func=detail&par=12719
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