In an interview on Radio Euskadi’s program Ganbara, the former Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana, stressed that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine “is not just a security problem” and that its origin dates back to 2014.
The former Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999) and the former High Representative of the Council for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (1999-2009), Javier Solana, has pointed out that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine “It’s not just a security issue” and that broke out in 2014 when the EU tried to close an economic agreement with Ukraine.
“There have been problems with Ukraine for many years. In 2004 we had to negotiate a repeat of the elections and in 2014 we once again had internal chaos in Ukraine. What is happening now is a problem derived from 2014. It breaks out when the EU is going to agree on an economic agreement with Ukraine. It is not just a security problem. Russia does not want there to be economic agreements with Ukraine”, he explained in a interview in the program Radio Euskadi Chamber.
He also recalled that in the past Ukraine had nuclear weapons that he handed over to Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved and that, therefore, it is now “paradoxical” that Vladimir Putin’s regime does not want to recognize Ukraine.
Solana considers that the solution to the conflict goes through the bases already collected in the minsk agreement signed by Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France, “although it has not finished working and a new format will have to be found”.
In addition, he has warned that Ukraine “has economic problems that only the European Union can solve.” That is why he considers that the EU must participate in the negotiations to avoid a possible military intervention and achieve a diplomatic solution.
Disputed about sanctions that the United States could impose on Russia in the event of an invasion, Solana has said that at present “there are many sanctioned countries, but for them to have an effect and entail a significant punishment they have to be very well designed”.
About Chinese paper, believes that it has been closer to Russia, “for what may come in the future and for what may happen with Taiwan.” “For the EU, Taiwan is part of China, but there are agents who consider that it should be an independent state,” he added.
Source: Eitb
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