Natural Citizen
02-05-2015, 09:37 PM
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The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator John McCain.(Reuters / Gary Cameron)
The US is partially responsible for Ukraine’s indiscriminate use of cluster bombs in the country’s east, US Senator John McCain told Russia’s Sputnik news agency. According to McCain, it is due to the US failing to send Kiev other arms.
“I think that if we had provided them with the weapons they need, they wouldn’t have felt they had to use cluster bombs. So, it’s partially our fault,” McCain, who is also the US Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, told Sputnik (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150205/1017844947.html).
The usage of cluster munitions has been declared illegal and a violation of international humanitarian law by the UN. Up to 114 countries have signed a UN treaty banning such weapons, which are made of hundreds of submunitions that can travel in any direction during blasts, putting everyone in their vicinity at high risk.
HRW blamed Kiev for not investigating its army’s indiscriminate use of prohibited cluster bombs against civilians in the country’s east. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk responded by claiming “there is no evidence of that,”and suggested that the group should focus on Crimea, which split from Ukraine and reunited with Russia in March 2014.
McCain also stressed that US military advisers would have to travel to Ukraine, if the US decides to supply the country with ammunitions, “We require some [military advisers],”McCain said. “But it’s not a large number that we need and they are not going to engage in combat. We will not put American troops in combat roles, but we will help them [Ukrainians] defend themselves.”
Continued - US partly to blame for Ukraine’s use of cluster bombs – McCain (http://rt.com/news/229795-us-ukraine-cluster-bombs/)
Relevant reading - Hollande, Merkel go to Moscow to discuss Ukraine without consulting US – report (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?452897-Slaughterhouse-Civilians-die-in-Kiev-s-ruthless-military-attacks-(GRAPHIC)&p=5775799&viewfull=1#post5775799)
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French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.(AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande did not consult Washington before deciding to visit Moscow to hold talks on the Ukrainian crisis, a source in the French government told AP.
“Together with Angela Merkel we have decided to take a new initiative,” Hollande told a news conference on Thursday.
As Hollande and Merkel are set to discuss a peaceful resolution to the conflict, the US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ukraine to answer Kiev’s plea for weapons. Kerry told reporters that US President Barack Obama will make his decision on the possibility of sending lethal aid to Ukraine next week.
Le Nouvel Observateur journalist Vincent Jauvert believes that Hollande and Merkel’s prompt decision to talk with Putin in Moscow comes as an attempt “to get ahead of the Americans who are trying to impose their solution to the problem on Westerners: a transfer of weapons to Ukraine.”
The journalist elaborates that the two leaders went to Kiev straight after Kerry as they “distrust the American administration” and want to “present their diplomatic solutions just before US Vice President Joe Biden” presents the US plan of sending lethal weapons to Kiev at the Munich security conference on Saturday.
The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator John McCain.(Reuters / Gary Cameron)
The US is partially responsible for Ukraine’s indiscriminate use of cluster bombs in the country’s east, US Senator John McCain told Russia’s Sputnik news agency. According to McCain, it is due to the US failing to send Kiev other arms.
“I think that if we had provided them with the weapons they need, they wouldn’t have felt they had to use cluster bombs. So, it’s partially our fault,” McCain, who is also the US Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, told Sputnik (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150205/1017844947.html).
The usage of cluster munitions has been declared illegal and a violation of international humanitarian law by the UN. Up to 114 countries have signed a UN treaty banning such weapons, which are made of hundreds of submunitions that can travel in any direction during blasts, putting everyone in their vicinity at high risk.
HRW blamed Kiev for not investigating its army’s indiscriminate use of prohibited cluster bombs against civilians in the country’s east. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk responded by claiming “there is no evidence of that,”and suggested that the group should focus on Crimea, which split from Ukraine and reunited with Russia in March 2014.
McCain also stressed that US military advisers would have to travel to Ukraine, if the US decides to supply the country with ammunitions, “We require some [military advisers],”McCain said. “But it’s not a large number that we need and they are not going to engage in combat. We will not put American troops in combat roles, but we will help them [Ukrainians] defend themselves.”
Continued - US partly to blame for Ukraine’s use of cluster bombs – McCain (http://rt.com/news/229795-us-ukraine-cluster-bombs/)
Relevant reading - Hollande, Merkel go to Moscow to discuss Ukraine without consulting US – report (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?452897-Slaughterhouse-Civilians-die-in-Kiev-s-ruthless-military-attacks-(GRAPHIC)&p=5775799&viewfull=1#post5775799)
http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/38/19/70/00/15.si.jpg
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.(AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande did not consult Washington before deciding to visit Moscow to hold talks on the Ukrainian crisis, a source in the French government told AP.
“Together with Angela Merkel we have decided to take a new initiative,” Hollande told a news conference on Thursday.
As Hollande and Merkel are set to discuss a peaceful resolution to the conflict, the US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ukraine to answer Kiev’s plea for weapons. Kerry told reporters that US President Barack Obama will make his decision on the possibility of sending lethal aid to Ukraine next week.
Le Nouvel Observateur journalist Vincent Jauvert believes that Hollande and Merkel’s prompt decision to talk with Putin in Moscow comes as an attempt “to get ahead of the Americans who are trying to impose their solution to the problem on Westerners: a transfer of weapons to Ukraine.”
The journalist elaborates that the two leaders went to Kiev straight after Kerry as they “distrust the American administration” and want to “present their diplomatic solutions just before US Vice President Joe Biden” presents the US plan of sending lethal weapons to Kiev at the Munich security conference on Saturday.