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British Ambassador’s interview to Ukrainian Week
This is the full text of the interview as it was delivered in English. Its Ukrainian version was published in The Ukrainian Week magazine (9-15 August 2013).
How do you assess today’s political situation in Ukraine and what political image does Ukraine have in the eyes of the British? How seriously do you take Kyiv’s intentions to move closer to the EU?
Let’s remember that there is the general public and the informed public and I think each of these groups will perceive Ukraine’s politics differently. A lot of the general public in Britain will perhaps see a little bit superficial image of Ukraine; they may recall pictures of people fighting in Parliament and they may associate it with Ukraine. As for the informed public, there will be a perception that politics in Ukraine is quite a confrontational and aggressive business. I think there will also be a perception that none of the parties at the Rada have yet come to terms with the results of the 2012 October elections. Seen from the perspective of people used to British politics, there would be an assumption that this kind of a result has happened in the UK and that while the political parties may not have liked it, they would have by now settled down a constructive and pra
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 KIEV 001021 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/15/2016 TAGS: PREL, PBTS, MD, UP, OSCE, Ukraine-Moldova SUBJECT: UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER SUPPORTS UKRAINE-MOLDOVA CUSTOMS PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION Classified By: Charge d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.4 (b,d). 1. (C) Summary: During March 13 meetings in Kiev, EUR DAS David Kramer praised the Ukrainian government's decision to implement a customs protocol to control the flow of goods across its border with Moldova/Transnistria. Drawing on reftel, Kramer told PM Yuri Yekhanurov, Deputy Minister of Defense Leonid Polyakov, MFA 2nd Territorial Department Director Anatoliy Ponomarenko, and journalism students and media representatives at Kiev-Mohyla Academy that the customs protocol implementation could motivate Transnistrian authorities to engage meaningfully in the five-plus-two Transnistria settlement process. Kramer told Ponomarenko he had protested Russia's unhelpful stance March 10 in a meeting with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Ushakov and said our Embassy would reinforce the message in Moscow. Ponomarenko expressed concern that the Transnistrian authorities were preparing to wait out the Ukrainians until after the March 26