John Kerry, as part of his last speech at the Munich conference as the United States Secretary of State, urged the participants to show the will and courage to resolve the current crisis, just as it was done fifty years ago, the head of the European bureau of Vestnik Kavkaza, Orhan Sattorov reported.
"Let's remember 1963, when we continually talked about achieving peace and felt a new reality here, in Germany, seeing the barbed wire, which limited countries. Then we said that if anyone doubts the existence of 'a cold war', he should go to Berlin. In those days, I was a young man and studied in Switzerland and, being in Europe, have seen what war and its consequences are. Now the Cold War has ended, but once again, that courage and that will are required. The number of crises right now is unparalleled, we have a large number of hot spots and failed states," John Kerry stated.
According to him, Europe is in the hardest crisis since World War II. "50% of the population of the Middle East is ready to knock on Europe's door. A whole smuggling industry has been created around it, and many people use it for political purposes. We in the US do not believe that we are protected from these problems, and those are our problems too. The United States understands the existential nature of this threat to life in Europe, so we participate in NATO operations in order to block the routes and stop the flow of migration due to the security threat to Europe," the Secretary of State informed.
At the same time, John Kerry stressed that the US expects Europe to emerge from the current crisis stronger than before. "Many Europeans believe that these problems are insuperable, including EU's potential loss of the UK. But we believe that Europe will emerge from this crisis, if it remains united, and we are interested in the United Kingdom remaining in a strong European Union," he pointed out, assuring the participants that the US and EU transatlantic partnership was created only to "support each other in difficult times."
The Secretary of State, just like European leaders before him, pointed to Russia as an enemy of the West and once again, ignoring the content of the Minsk agreements, called Russia one of the sides of the conflict in Ukraine and urged it "to either implement 'Minsk-2', or live under sanctions," demanding that Moscow "provide full humanitarian access to the occupied territories," despite the fact that today Russia is the only country that regularly provides humanitarian assistance to Donbass.
At the same time, he also urged Kiev to fulfill the Minsk agreements. "Ukraine has a certain responsibility regarding 'Minsk-2', and it is important for Kiev to fulfill its part of the agreements," he said.
