Putin drops option to intervene militarily in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a clear signal that he has no intention to intervene militarily in Ukraine and proposed the Federation Council to set aside the provision that allowed him to send troops to Ukraine. On Tuesday, before leaving on an official visit to Vienna, Putin sent this proposal to Valentina Matvienko, the head of the upper house, according to the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. The measure is intended to “normalize and regulate the situation in the eastern regions of Ukraine and is related to the beginning of the trilateral talks on the subject,” the official said, according to RIA-Novosti agency.

At the request of the Russian leader, the Federation Council had given permission last March 1 that Russian troops could intervene ” in the territory of Ukraine.” From the point of view of the Russian legal system that allows the use of troops abroad to defend national interests, the permit legalized the annexation of the Crimea by the uniformed service of Russia, which acted before and after have legal basis in part without wearing their distinctive national country. The Senate authorization remains in effect until it is abolished by the senators, so theoretically can still be used to carry troops to the eastern regions of Ukraine and hangs like a sword of Damocles over the country.

The signal given by the President of Russia helps to reduce international tension and strengthen trilateral optimism about “consultations” held on Monday by representatives of Ukraine and Russia with the separatist region of Donbas (Don River basin) under the auspices of the OSCE. The result of the first meeting, held in the regional administration of Donetsk was the commitment of the pro-Russian breakaway to maintain a ceasefire until June 27 in response to that already declared last week by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko  as part of its peace plan.

The success of the trilateral talks will depend heavily on Russia and Ukraine to achieve compromise on issues such as decentralization of Ukrainian politics and management guarantees to use of the Russian language, two of the most fundamental demands of the separatists.

On his trip to Austria, Putin will address the status of the South Stream gas pipeline, whose construction has encountered strong resistance in the European Union (EU) as a result of Russian policy in Ukraine. South Stream, which passes through the Black Sea and is addressed to the countries of central and southern Europe, is one of two projects of Gazprom in collaboration with European partners (the other is the current North in cooperation with Germany) to reduce dependence on Ukraine, through which now the bulk of Russian gas exports to the EU.

According to the Izvestia daily, despite the ” unprecedented pressure from the U.S. and the European Commission on participants in the project” gas pipeline South Stream, Russia continues to hold discussions with each of the countries driving full tender. Putin, who is traveling with the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, signed in Vienna an agreement establishing a company that will build the Austrian section of the South Stream.

The agreements are quite fragile without the approval of the European Commission, the paper, under which the EU Energy Commissioner Günter Ettinger, said that agreements are possible if Gazprom accepts the third energy package of the EU, which obliged to maintain separate competition and distribution. Recently, Bulgaria succumbed to pressure from Brussels and Washington, and retired from the South Stream project. That pipeline should allow the transfer of 63,000 million cubic meters of gas by the Black Sea, and to do so has created an international company, South Stream Transport VC- in which Gazprom and Italy’s ENI holding 50 %.

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