Naib Presiden Amerika Syarikat Joe Biden (U.S.
Vice President Joe Biden (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
WANmahani - Kepimpinan Amerika terpaksa memalukan Eropah utk
mengenakan hits ekonomi ke atas Rusia terhadap krisis di Ukraine - walaupun EU
menentang usul itu, Naib Presiden Amerika Syarikat Joe Biden mendedahkan dlm
satu ucapan di Harvard.
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"Kami telah diberi Putin pilihan yang mudah:
Menghormati kedaulatan Ukraine atau menghadapi meningkatkan kesan," Biden
memberitahu satu perhimpunan di John F. Kennedy Jr Forum di Institut Harvard
Universiti Politik Khamis.
Akibat ialah sekatan ‘sanctions’
EU yg dikenakan ke atas Rusia, pertama mensa-sarkan ahli2 politik & ahli
perniagaan individu yg dianggap bertanggungjawab utk krisis di Ukraine,
kemudian beralih kpd tenaga, pertahanan, dan sektor ekonomi.
"Memang benar mereka tidak mahu berbuat demikian," Biden admitted.
"Ia adalah kepimpinan Amerika dan Presiden
Amerika Syarikat menegaskan, masa sering mempunyai hampir memalukan Eropah
untuk berdiri dan mengambil hits ekonomi utk mengenakan kos," Naib
Presiden Amerika Syarikat mengisytiharkan.
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BIDEN Says US 'Embarrassed'
EU into SANCTIONING RUSSIAN Over UKRAINE
. . .
America’s leadership had to embarrass Europe to
impose economic hits on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine – even though the EU
was opposed to such a motion, US Vice President Joe Biden revealed during a
speech at Harvard.
“We’ve given Putin a simple choice: Respect
Ukraine’s sovereignty or face increasing consequences,” Biden told a gathering
at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard University's Institute of Politics
on Thursday.
The consequences were the sanctions
which the EU imposed on Russia, first targeting individual politicians and
businessmen deemed responsible for the crisis in Ukraine, then switching to the
energy, defense, and economic sectors.
“It is true they did not want to do that,” Biden admitted.
“It was America’s leadership and the president of
the United States insisting, oft times almost having to embarrass Europe to
stand up and take economic hits to impose costs,” the US vice president
declared.
AFP Photo/Patrick Hertzog
Kos ‘costs’ dianggap belakang terjun bersejarah ruble bukan
sahaja terpaksa ExxonMobil Amerika untuk berundur dari Rusia Artik rak, tetapi
juga menimbulkan balas langkah dari Moscow, yang digantung ‘suspended’ import makanan tertentu daripada EU.
Balas sekatan Rusia telah melanda banyak
negara2 pertanian EU. Ahli Kesatuan Eropah, terutamanya mereka yg rapat
dgn Rusia, adalah yg paling terjejas dengan kehilangan pasaran Rusia.
Sebagai contoh, Belanda - pengeksport yang ke-2
terbesar di DUNIA produk-produk pertanian - bakal kehilangan € 300 Juta euro setiap
tahun dari perniagaan yg dibatalkan dengan Rusia, kerana ia menyumbang
kira-kira 10 % peratus daripada eksport Belanda sayur-sayuran, buah-buahan, dan
daging.
Pada masa yang sama, Poland telah terjejas teruk oleh sekatan Kremlin,
eksport makanan ke Rusia berjumlah $ 1.5 bilion pada 2013.
Sepanyol, pengeksport besar oren ke Rusia,
dianggarkan ketinggalan 337 juta euro ($ 421 Juta) dlm makanan &
pertanian jualan, manakala Itali menganggarkan kerugian hampir 1 bilion euro ($
1.2 bilion).
Berikutan tekanan daripada petani tempatan, yg €125
Juta euro dana Suruhanjaya EU Dasar Pertanian Bersama tlh ditubuhkan, dari
mana penanam dijangka untuk mendapatkan wang tunai, manakala Amsterdam sanggup
menampung kos meng-angkut hasil melebihi 8 bank makanan di Belanda.
Secara keseluruhannya, satu tahun sekatan makanan
Moscow terhadap Kesatuan Eropah, Amerika Syarikat, Norway, Australia, dan
Kanada akan menyekat satu anggaran bernilai $ 9 billion eksport pertanian ke
Rusia.
Dengan negara-negara Eropah kerugian ‘loss’
dengan epal dan lebihan tenusu, ia tidak betul-betul jelas sama ada pengeluar
EU akan dapat kembali ke pasaran Rusia selepas pengharaman satu tahun tamat ‘expires’.
Walau bagaimanapun, ini bukan rahsia ke Amerika Syarikat, sebagai
Penolong Setiausaha Negara Victoria Nuland berkata ‘remarked’
pada hari Khamis.
"Melaksanakan sekatan tidak mudah dan banyak
negara sedang membayar harga yang curam. Kita tahu bahawa. Tetapi sejarah
menunjukkan bahawa kos tidak bertindak dan perpecahan dalam menghadapi
penyerang yang bertekad akan lebih tinggi, "kata Nuland.
Those costs deemed behind the ruble's historic plunge not
only forced America’s ExxonMobil to retreat from Russia’s Arctic shelf, but
also provoked counter-measures from Moscow, which suspended certain food imports from the EU.
Russia’s counter-sanctions have hit many of the EU’s
agricultural states. EU members, particularly those close to Russia, were the
most affected by the loss of the Russian market.
For instance, the Netherlands – the world’s
second-largest exporter of agricultural products – is set to lose 300 million
euro annually from canceled business with Russia, as it accounts for roughly 10
percent of Dutch exports of vegetables, fruit, and meat.
At the same time, Poland was hit hard by the Kremlin’s sanctions, as its
food exports to Russia totaled $1.5 billion in 2013.
Spain, a large exporter of oranges to Russia, is
estimated to miss out on 337 million euro ($421 million) in food and
agriculture sales, while Italy has estimated its losses at nearly 1 billion
euro ($1.2 billion).
Following pressure from local farmers, a 125 million
euro EU Commission Common Agricultural Policy fund was established, from which
the growers are expected to get some cash, while Amsterdam is willing to cover
the cost of transporting excess produce to eight food banks across Holland.
Overall, Moscow’s one-year food embargo against the
EU, the US, Norway, Australia, and Canada will block an estimated $9 billion
worth of agricultural exports to Russia.
With European countries now at a loss
with apple and dairy surplus, it is not exactly clear whether EU producers will
be able to return to the Russian markets after the one-year ban expires.
However, this is no secret to the US, as Assistant Secretary of State
Victoria Nuland remarked
on Thursday.
“Implementing sanctions isn’t easy and many
countries are paying a steep price. We know that. But history shows that the
cost of inaction and disunity in the face of a determined aggressor will be
higher,” Nuland said.
Penolong Setiausaha
Negara Amerika Syarikat bagi Eropah dan Hal Ehwal Serani Victoria Nuland (dariKanan)
dan Duta Amerika Syarikat Geoffrey Pyatt (2 dariKanan) mengedarkan roti kepada
polis rusuhan berhampiran persegi Kemerdekaan di Kiev 11 Disember 2013 (U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland
(R) and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt (2nd R) distribute bread to riot police
near Independence square in Kiev December 11, 2013 (Reuters/Andrew Kravchenko)
Nuland rujukan untuk tindakan yang perlu terhadap
"penyerang" mungkin diambil dengan sebutir garam oleh orang Eropah,
sebagai "F ** k EU" kebocoran masih segar dalam ingatan mereka.
Video 4 minit - bertajuk 'boneka Maidan,' merujuk
kepada Dataran Merdeka di ibu negara Ukraine - tlh dimuat naik oleh seorang
pengguna tanpa nama ke YouTube.
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Nuland dicatatkan sebagai berkata frasa terkenal
dikenali semasa panggilan telefon dengan Duta Amerika Syarikat ke Ukraine
Geoffrey Pyatt, kerana yang kedua-dua seolah-olah telah membincangkan Amerika Syarikat
lebih suka barisan kerajaan Ukraine.
Ia nampaknya merujuk kepada perbezaan dasar
Washington dgn yg digunakan oleh EU mengenai cara-cara mengendalikan
krisis politik Ukraine, dengan Nuland mencadangkan utk "gam perkara
ini" dgn bantuan PBB & mengabaikan Brussels.
Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat tidak menafikan
kesahihan video tersebut dan menegaskan bahawa Nuland telah memohon maaf untuk
"komen yang dilaporkan."
Nuland’s reference to necessary action against the
“aggressor” might be taken with a grain of salt by the Europeans, as the “F**k
the EU” leak is still fresh in their memory.
The four-minute video - titled ‘Maidan puppets,’ referring to
Independence Square in Ukraine’s capital – was uploaded by an anonymous user to
YouTube.
Nuland was recorded as saying the notoriously known
phrase during a phone call with US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, as the
two were seemingly discussing a US-preferred line-up of the Ukrainian
government.
It apparently referred to Washington’s policy differences
with those of the EU on ways of handling the Ukrainian political crisis, with
Nuland suggesting to “glue this thing” with the help of the UN and ignore
Brussels.
The US State Department did not deny the authenticity of the video and
stressed that Nuland had apologized for the “reported comments.”
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