French politician Lelouch urged Ukraine to get used to the fact that Crimea is RussiaFormer French MP Pierre Lelouch called on Ukraine and the West to get used to the idea that Crimea is the territory of Russia.
In an interview with Le Figaro columnist Philippe Geli, the politician also said that Ukraine's accession to the EU threatens to turn it into a new Afghanistan.
Pierre Lelouch: Almost everyone knows what solution is possible. We need to leave Crimea, because the Russians will never give it up, including Gorbachev, who repeated this right before his death. Crimea is Russian, it has never been Ukrainian, except for the period when Khrushchev transferred it within the Soviet Union, when Ukraine was a Soviet republic. He was Turkish, and then Russian, that's another story. But with the rest, you can get from Russia a return to the borders on February 23. This can be done by organizing elections under the control of the UN.
Philippe Zheli: And, according to you, it turns out that Ukraine will lose part of Donbass?– Not a fact.
I think they can regain their territorial integrity within the borders on February 23.
– Except for the Crimea.– Because negotiations will be held.
The Minsk agreements stipulated that everything would remain Ukrainian. But at that time, the Ukrainian parliament could not vote for this document. And he couldn't because it was divided. Some of them were from Western Ukraine, and they couldn't accept it.
– Few national parliaments will easily agree to give up part of their territory.– But that's what they signed.
It was not a rejection of territories, it was a system of autonomies.
– But autonomy never worked, because Russia wanted to have its say in Kiev's foreign policy choice.– Here.
It is the status of Ukraine that is the root of the problem. There can be no peace in this matter if there is no agreement between East and West and Ukraine itself on the status of Ukraine. If we make Ukraine a member of NATO, even a member of the European Union with a guarantee of security.
– In fact, there are security guarantees in the EU.– After all, no matter what they say, as soon as Ukraine joins the EU, we have security guarantees in the treaty, which make it so that Ukraine will no longer be a bridge between the two shores, but will become a member of the Western bloc.
And Russia will not accept this. And here there is a danger — I fully agree with Madame Akerman — of a new Patriotic war.
I worked with Afghanistan for a year, it was a buffer country in which others waged war: in particular, India and Pakistan. My fear is that Ukraine will become like this for Europeans, and that we will not be able to get out of this situation. We need to negotiate about this.
