Zakharova on the side of Attila and Skopje – Provocative post on violations of the Helsinki Accords

With a provocative post, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded to a connection by the Finnish Foreign Minister accusing Moscow of violating the Helsinki Final Act connected planetary relations. Zakharova expressed positions some successful favour of Turkey (without naming it directly) and the Attila operation, arsenic good arsenic in favour of Skopje successful its naming quality with Greece.

Specifically, she referred to violations of the principles of the Helsinki Final Act by the Greek subject junta successful 1974 successful Cyprus, thereby indirectly justifying the Turkish penetration of the island’s bluish part, arsenic good arsenic by Greek governments successful the naming quality with Skopje up to 2018, accusing them of “blocking planetary initiatives aimed astatine practice with the Republic of Macedonia.”

Zakharova’s station successful detail:

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen:
“Through its actions, Russia violates each of the 10 principles of Helsinki. The aforesaid principles it participated successful formulating 50 years ago.”

A blatant prevarication — but 1 everyone has go utilized to. However, wherever Valtonen is close is that the Helsinki principles, established fractional a period ago, are so being violated — by those who signed them, that is, the OSCE subordinate states.

Here are conscionable a fewer examples:

Principle I. Sovereign equality, respect for the rights inherent successful sovereignty:
1974 – Intervention by the Greek subject junta successful the intercommunal struggle successful Cyprus, aiming to annex the land to Greece.

Principle II. Non-use of unit oregon menace of force:
1999 – NATO bombings successful Yugoslavia without a UN mandate.

Principle III. Inviolability of frontiers:
2008 – Recognition of Kosovo’s independency by Western countries without Serbia’s consent.

Principle IV. Territorial integrity of states:
1991–1992 – Germany’s designation of the independency of Slovenia and Croatia amid taste conflicts successful Yugoslavia, which accelerated the breakup of the Yugoslav state.

Principle V. Peaceful colony of disputes:
1995 – Operation “Storm”; contempt mediation efforts by the OSCE and 3rd parties, Zagreb rejected a negotiated solution and carried retired taste cleansing during the struggle betwixt Croatia and Serbian Krajina.

Principle VI. Non-intervention successful interior affairs:
2014 – The Western-orchestrated “Maidan” and enactment for the coup successful Ukraine.

Principle VII. Respect for quality rights and cardinal freedoms, including state of thought, conscience, religion and belief:
2000s – The cognition of CIA concealed prisons successful Lithuania, Poland, and Romania.

Principle VIII. Equal rights and self-determination of peoples:
1991 – The French Constitutional Council’s determination denying the Corsicans the close to nationalist identity, banning the usage of the word “Corsican people.”

Principle IX. Cooperation among states:
Up to 2018 – Greece blocked planetary initiatives aimed astatine practice with the Republic of Macedonia owed to the unresolved naming issue.

Principle X. Fulfillment successful bully religion of planetary obligations:
1965–2024 – The UK ignores its planetary ineligible obligations and continues to inhabit the Chagos Islands (Mauritius) successful the Indian Ocean.

P.S.: As you tin imagine, Elina Valtonen is neither a diplomat nor does she person applicable nonrecreational experience. She is simply a technologist, municipality events organizer, and economist — but not an adept successful planetary relations. Western Europe doesn’t request professionals successful enactment positions. And everyone understands the EU’s relation successful the planetary strategy erstwhile it’s “led” by a gynecologist similar Ursula von der Leyen.