Words without action are worthless. Wars of words have been going on in the UN since day one. But the UN did nothing to stop the genocide in Rwanda, or Palestine, or where ever else. And it is their legal obligation to do so, also protecting human rights and sovereign borders, by the agreements that they signed, such as the "Responsibility to Protect". In fact, Russia has turned it upside down and is using that argument to justify its actions in Crimea as carrying out its responsibility to protect the human rights of its Russian speakers from civil war, Banderivtsi, Nazis, fascists, terrorists, (pick any other nasty adjective). That's why all the Russian media hype/propaganda before the invasion. The Russians even wave a document signed by Yanukovych begging for their help. See what humanitarians they are! And what words. Furthermore, China acknowledging that it "respects the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine" and then doing nothing about it, is a slap in the face to Ukrainians, a legal irresponsibility, and a de facto support of Russia's actions. The UN also did nothing to stop USA's violation of Iraq's sovereignty and invasion on a trumped-up pretext of "weapons of mass destruction" which didn't exist. I don't hold much hope or faith in the UN. Just another front for political games.
Ironically, Samantha Power who wrote about the USA's failure of legal responsibility in the Rwandan genocide in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book: "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide", studying the U.S. foreign policy response to genocide, is now the US ambassador to UN. She wrote the following in the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/bystanders-to-genocide/304571/
In reality the United States did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to block the subsequent authorization of UN reinforcements. It refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in the coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, U.S. officials shunned the term "genocide," for fear of being obliged to act. The United States in fact did virtually nothing "to try to limit what occurred." Indeed, staying out of Rwanda was an explicit U.S. policy objective.
Even Turkish intelligence is doing more in Crimea.
Stefan Lemieszewski
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 6:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [politics] Re: China Sides With Russia Against Ukraine - Sky News -3Mar2014
The best you can argue, really, is that China is holding its options
open. But at the concrete meeting tonight on a concrete issue at the
UN Security Council, China did not support Russia. And Russia needs
China more than the reverse. That's pretty clear.
Quoting Stefan Lemieszewski <[email protected]>:
>
> China says: ?We respect the independence, sovereignty and
> territorial integrity of Ukraine.?
>
> Russia not only says: ?We respect the independence, sovereignty and
> territorial integrity of Ukraine.?
> But also GUARANTEES Ukraine?s borders. ()
>
> Stefan Lemieszewski
>
>
>
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>
> From: Anubis
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 5:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [politics] China Sides With Russia Against Ukraine -
> Sky News -3Mar2014
>
> http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304815004579416771704060190?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304815004579416771704060190.html
>
> "Russia's foreign ministry says China agrees with the Kremlin about
> Moscow's military action in Ukraine. But China's foreign ministry
> differs with that assessment....."It is China's longstanding
> position not to interfere in others' internal affairs. We respect
> the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,"
> he said, according to a statement posted on the Chinese ministry's
> website on Sunday...."
>
>
>
> On 3/3/2014 6:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> What about this?
>
>
> http://www.unian.ua/politics/892518-kitay-pidtrimue-printsip-nevtruchannya-u-vnutrishni-spravi-posol-v-oon.html
>
> Doesn't quite support Lavrov's claim.
>
> Quoting Stefan Lemieszewski mailto:[email protected]:
>
> http://news.sky.com/story/1219922/russia-and-china-in-agreement-over-ukraine
> Sky News
> 3Mar2014
> Russia And China 'In Agreement' Over Ukraine
> Russia is in "operational control" of Crimea as soldiers
> surround Ukrainian troops and seize a ferry port.
>
> [ . . . ]
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