{"id":5436,"date":"2015-02-08T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2015-02-08T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:22:29","slug":"sarkozy-crimea-cannot-be-blamed-for-joining-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5436","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy: Crimea cannot be blamed for joining Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/230283-sarkozy-crimea-russia-blamed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarkozy: Crimea cannot be blamed for joining Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Crimea cannot be blamed for seceding from Ukraine \u2013 a country in turmoil \u2013 and choosing to join Russia, said former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. He also added that Ukraine \u201cis not destined to join the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/230251-ukraine-plan-autonomy-hollande\/\">READ MORE: French President Hollande calls for broader autonomy for E. Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are part of a common civilization with Russia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Sarkozy, speaking on Saturday at the congress of the Union for a Popular Movement Party (UMP), which the former president heads.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe interests of the Americans with the Russians are not the interests of Europe and Russia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said adding that\u00a0<em>\u201cwe do not want the revival of a Cold War between Europe and Russia.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Crimea\u2019s choice to secede from Ukraine when the country was in the midst of political turmoil, Sarkozy noted that the residents of the peninsula cannot be accused for doing so.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCrimea has chosen Russia, and we cannot blame it [for doing so],\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said pointing out that\u00a0<em>\u201cwe must find the means to create a peacekeeping force to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In March 2014 over 96 percent of Crimea\u2019s residents \u2013 the majority of whom are ethnic Russians \u2013 voted to secede from Ukraine to reunify with Russia. The decision was prompted by a massive uprising in Ukraine, that led to the ouster of its democratically elected government, and the fact that the first bills approved by the new Kiev authorities were infringing the rights of ethnic Russians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarkozy: Crimea cannot be blamed for joining Russia Crimea cannot be blamed for seceding from Ukraine \u2013 a country in turmoil \u2013 and choosing to join Russia, said former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. He also added that Ukraine \u201cis not destined to join the EU.\u201d READ MORE: French President Hollande calls for broader autonomy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[149,179,279,281,284,3336,694,821],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-crimea","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5437,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/5437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}