Today as I
am following the news I cannot figure out where we are and where we should be
standing regarding the situation between Russia and Ukraine. I have not written in my blog for almost two
years now and I wonder if my interest in sharing this information in white and
black here arises from a moment of disturbance or the need of clarifying myself
around the importance of diplomacy and geostrategy.
All to
reach one premise that I am and I was the main defendant of and it is the UN Charter, signed in 1945, so alive today,
with such amazing preamble:
“
WE THE
PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge
of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the
human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and
small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the
obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be
maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in
larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in
peace with one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength to
maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of
principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used”.
So, let's claim
this and act accordingly. Let us join
forces in order to put the machinery of diplomacy at work and get back to
Business as Usual and to our own lives and respect.
I remember
in 2008 when I was deployed to Georgia with the EU Monitoring Mission to report
on the situation of the ground after the out surge of the war between Georgia
and Russia. For the sake of the same situation as the one we are living now,
Georgia getting closer to NATO and Russia not willing to have neighbour state
belonging to NATO. Different approaches,
views, different countries, same issue. In both cases the Presidency of the
Council of the European Union was/is under France, interesting enough. Since
then it is also my understanding that geopolitics and energy go hand by hand
and with no doubts this is the case nowadays, Russia as the main provider of
gas to Europe and Ukraine as the main transit country.
Let
us reclaim the UN Charter and
multilateralism in order to solve the possible conflict, let us cool the situation
and avoid suffering from the Ukraine populations that is seeing its own territory
been damaged, torn and cut off. Indeed, history has ways of giving, creating and
dividing territories, due to several issues, but let us respect the present borders
as they exist and avoid interference within other territories and their own sovereignty.
Russia has also border with Finland, Estonia and Latvia and things go Ok in
those. Hoping that the situation goes
back to “normal” and we can rely on democracy and the respect of human rights
and avoid the use of force as it is forbidden by the UN Charter.
