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"Mr President, Commissioner, Ukraine is being born in front of our very eyes and those of Russia. Russia and ourselves take different views, and that is why the Summit has communicated so little on the issue. Instead, there are Europe’s open evaluations. There is extraordinary development in Ukraine. A nation of citizens, such as Russian manifestly is not, is being born. It is Ukraine’s hour now. According to our documents, however, Russia has great responsibility, – in my view, the greatest. Ukraine’s chairman of Parliament made a start by announcing that Ukraine has only two alternatives – either the division of the state or bloodshed. It looks like the Russian President would be in favour of completely restarting the election process, so that the opposition leader could be eliminated. If the resigning president of Ukraine is going to listen to such advice and announce a decree to organise not just the second round but completely new elections, Russia will be responsible for the consequences. This would become a provocation for hundreds of thousands of people, who could lose patience leading to a loss of peaceful civil order. If they were to occupy the presidential palace, as happened in Georgia, they could be met by the gunshots of a foreign army. The European Parliament or the European Commission – I am directing my comments to Mrs Ferrero Valdner here – could officially ask the Russian Government, or at least its representatives, if the reports by the Moscow press about Russian special armed forces being brought into Kiev dressed in Ukrainian uniforms are correct. Extreme as the situation appears, it is difficult to understand the sympathy expressed for the Russian president – who got involved so unnecessarily – as if he cannot lose. Fourteen years ago, we in Lithuania were similarly aware of the majority in the West feeling sorry for Mikhail Gorbachev. That had a bad effect on the Kremlin, and Gorbachev lost a lot more influence. A politics designed to restore the Russian empire has now already been defeated in Ukraine, even though President Putin remains a force in the world. He has two alternatives – either acknowledge the Ukrainians’ right to have their government and democratic state or spill blood and be left with blood on his hands like Gorbachev. President Putin’s friends should speak directly with him, not via Mr Kuchma, and unanimously advise him to choose the first option. Thank you."@en1
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