Ukraine: Polish press reports

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Gazeta Wyborcza

Viktor Yushchenko was created by the Poles!

BW 25-11-2004, last update 25-11-2004 16:03

Zbigniew Brzezinski, his sons and Poland's government created the candidate of the Ukrainian opposition and have promoted Yushchenko in order to prevent the deeper integration of the European Union!

Thus asserts Sergei Markov, the well known political expert and director of the Institute of Politcal Studies in Moscow.

At a press conference in Russia’s capital city, Markov argued that Brzezinski, together with his sons - Mark and Ian - wanted Yushchenko to win, because this would increase Poland’s significance in the EU. And this - thinks Markov - suits Washington, because a strong Poland won't allow greater integration of the EU, which is under the patronage of France and Germany.

Markov describes this Polish conspiracy thus: Mark Brzezinski is an aide of the Democrats and his brother advises the Republicans. Their co-conspirator is Adrian Karatnycky - "a person with Polish ancestry", one of the leaders of Freedom House - the organization which supports democracy in the world.

According to Markov, the visit of Lech Walesa and the planned visit of [Polish president] Aleksander Kwasniewski are not coincidental - The Polish socio-technologists are planning in Kiev the repeat of coupe d'etats from Georgia and Serbia - asserts the Russian expert.

- Of course, the whole plan has to be secret, because the Ukrainians know that the Poles don't like them and treat them as something inferior [to them], so they can't know that actually Poland is behind the candidature of Yushchenko.

But what does Zbigniew Brzezinski want to achieve himself? - That's simple - answers Markov. - The Polish diaspora in the US hates George Bush, and it wants, by supporting Yushchenko, to make the president of the US quarrel with the president of Russia.
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Tough talk of Walesa with Yanukovich

Marcin Bosacki, Kiev, PAP 25-11-2004, last update 25-11-2004 21:13

Chances for talks between the authorities and opposition in Kiev are slim. Premier Yanukovich, who was declared as the winner of Sunday's elections in Ukraine talked very tough with the Polish mediator Lech Walesa. - Today I'm still ready for talks, but tomorrow I might be not - he told Walesa.

Lech Walesa came out from one hour talk with Yanukovich visibly upset. He said that Yunukovich declares his intention for talks with the opposition's leader Victor Yushchenko, but not about the results of the election. That means de facto, that he wants that Yushchenko would recognized him as a president. Of course, the opposition won't agree to any talks on these kind of conditions.

Lech Walesa, after the meeting with Yanukovich, was saying that he feared provocations on the streets of Kiev, and the next 24-48 hrs will decide about development of the situation there. Although Walesa's collocutors were assuring him, that are ready for talks and are excluding the use of force, the president thinks that there's a serious possibility of provocations and if you have a provocation
then force must be used.

He repeated these words later at a rally of thousands of Yushchenko's supportes, on which he showed up for the second time, after the meeting with Yanukovich.

People from Walesa's entourage add that Yanukovich told the ex-president that he might not talk tomorrow, because he will bring to the streets of Kiev thousands of his supporters from the Eastern Ukraine. And this will radically change the arrangement of forces.

It's not known if these threats are real.

It looks as though, in this tough attitude, Yanukovich is being supported by Moscow. During Walesa's meeting, to the government building, where the talks were going on, came the Russian ambassador - Victor Chernomyrdin, and ambassadors of Kazakhstan and Armenia. These two ambassadors were carrying big bouquets of flowers, it could be
assumed, to congratulate Yanukovich of his victory.


(translations by Marius, my minor edits)