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The BSW ties its participation in state governments to a change in foreign policy direction. Ukraine Ambassador Makeiev now appeals to the negotiating partners.
The Ambassador of Ukraine, Oleksii Makeiev, has urged the CDU and SPD not to give in to the foreign policy demands of the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht. “Whoever adopts the slogans of the BSW only loses,” he told the newspaper star.
The “politicians of the democratic parties” should consistently stand by their values: “They must not allow populists, at the state or federal level, to dissuade them from the basic principles of democracy, international law or solidarity with Ukraine.”
In Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, the CDU and SPD are currently exploring joint coalitions with the BSW. The Wagenknecht party demands that the future state governments speak out in favor of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia and against the stationing of US medium-range weapons in Germany.
Ukraine ambassador calls BSW “Alliance of Leninist Ideologists”
“The BSW is instrumentalizing Russia’s genocidal war against my country in order to profit politically from it,” explained Makeiev. The party is an “alliance of Leninist ideologists,” denies Russian war crimes and pursues a “perpetrator-victim reversal.”
Like the ambassadors of Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia before him, Makeiev criticized Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD), the Saxon CDU head of government Michael Kretschmer and the Thuringian CDU state chairman Mario Voigt. The three politicians approached the BSW in a joint guest article in the FAZ and called for stronger diplomatic efforts and a debate about the deployment of missiles.
“I can only say one thing about the ideas of Mr. Woidke, Mr. Kretschmer and Mr. Voigt: All demands to end the war of aggression should be addressed solely to Moscow,” explained the ambassador. “Ukraine wants peace.” He thanked his colleagues from Poland and the Baltic states for their objection, because they too knew from the experience of their history: “Russia is a threat to Europe.”
According to Makeiev, the voice of Central and Eastern Europe “must finally be truly heard.” “If you repeat the same mistakes, the result will be repeated – a further expansion of the war,” he said.
Source: Stern
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