Germany voted against the launch of Ukraine’s and Georgia’s accession process, considering that it was not stable democracies. A position criticized by Volodymyr Zelansky.
Le Monde with AFP
The former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, defended Monday 4 April his refusal, in 2008, to initiate the admission process of Ukraine to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO) Facing the criticism of the current President Volodymyr Zelensky who regretted the “absurd fear” manifested by some leaders at the time. The former German manager, who left the policy end 2021, “assumes his decisions from the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest,” he wrote in a short statement published by his spokesman.
In a video message on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelensky had criticized the “hidden refusal”, in 2008, NATO to welcome Ukraine within it because of the “absurd fear of certain politicians. “Moscow. The latter “thought that by rejecting Ukraine they could soothe Russia,” criticized the Ukrainian president.
m. Zelensky also suggested in Angela Merkel, now without official function, as well as former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to go to Bantcha, a city northwest of kyiv recently taken up by the Ukrainians, where many civilians have been killed. “I invite me me Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy to visit Budcha and see what the policy of concessions towards Russia has succeeded,” he launched.
At the NATO summit in Bucharest, in April 2008, Germany voted against the launch of Ukraine and Georgia’s accession process, a position shared by President Sarkozy, considering that It was not enough stable democracies.
“We do not blame the West. We do not blame anyone other than the Russian military (…) and those who gave them orders,” added Zelensky in his message Sunday night.
Angela Merkel’s Policy Included
The Chancellor, stayed at the head of Germany for sixteen, did not explain since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. In the statement published by his spokesman, she nevertheless shows her support. “Given the atrocities discovered in Budcha and in other places in Ukraine, all the efforts of the government and the international community to stand alongside Ukraine and end barbarism and the Russian war against Ukraine benefit from the full support of the old Chancellor “, reacts the spokesman of M me Merkel.
A few months after his departure from power, at the top of his popularity, she is now criticized for failing to have failed in President Vladimir Putin, and his policy with regard to Russia makes the object of severe challenges, including in its camp.
The conservative leader, who ruled several years with the Social Democrats in a great coalition, is also criticized for making German Germany Germany who represented before the war more than half of the imports of the imports of country.