Russia’s new foreign policy ‘contradicts international law’
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
05.03.2015 13:42
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Russia’s new foreign policy ‘contradicts international law’
Independent senator Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz tells reporter Michał Kubicki that Russia’s new foreign policy doctrine is founded on the assumption that Moscow has the right to intervene in those areas which have a Russian-speaking population.
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One cannot exclude, therefore, the possibility of Russia’s intervention one day in the break-away republic of Transnistria (from Moldova) or in the Baltic states.
Cimoszeweicz says, however, that a decision to intervene in any of the Baltic states “would mean Putin’s readiness to enter into a confrontation with NATO, which would be very risky for the whole world.”
“I don’t want to believe it’s possible,” Cimoszewicz says.
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz served briefly as prime minister in the leftist government in the mid-1990s and as foreign minister in the last decade.