Poland, Estonia Back Ukraine's Pro-Western Course

[Strengthandhonour]

Poland, Estonia Back Ukraine's Pro-Western Course
The presidents of Poland and Estonia on Tuesday voiced support for pro-Western factions in the Ukraine, one day after Ukraine's president sparked a constitutional crisis by dissolving his country's pro-Russian parliament.

"We want Ukraine to become part of the Western club," Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said after Tuesday evening talks with Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Warsaw.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, a pro-Europe politician who supports market reforms, dismissed parliament Monday citing alleged constitutional violations in forming the ruling coalition, and called for early elections.

Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the leader of a parliamentary majority that supports close relations with Russia and government support for big business, has denounced Yushchenko's order as illegal.

Poland and Ukraine recently vowed to push ahead with an Odessa-Gdansk pipeline project designed to pump Caspian crude oil via Ukraine to Poland and further to western EU states.

The new pipeline is aimed at easing the EU's heavy reliance on Russian fuel supplies.

Energy policy figured high on the agenda of the Estonian president, who began a two-day visit to Poland Tuesday.

The presidents of the two EU nations also discussed plans involving Poland and all three Baltic states to build a new nuclear power station at the site of Lithuania's Ignalina reactor. The Soviet-era facility is being phased out as part of Lithuania's EU accession agreement.

Poland and Lithuania have also forged plans to hook-up their electrical power grids in order to plug all three Baltic EU states into the bloc's larger electrical power network.

Speaking earlier in Warsaw at a public lecture, Ilves insisted the lack of a joint energy policy posed the greatest threat to the security of the 27-member European Union.

The three Baltic states and Poland have voiced strong objections to a Russian-German project to build a natural gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea floor, thus bypassing all four EU states.

They allege the pipeline pumping Russian fuel directly to Germany will pose a threat to their energy security and have criticized EU partner Germany for failing to make the decision in consultation with the EU.

source: Poland, Estonia Back Ukraine\'s Pro-Western Course - World News - Playfuls.com - Business & World

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Ah, the famous eastern European puppets of Yankee Juadea and Brussels. Now meddling in Ukraine's interior affairs. How pathetic, how disgusting! They should mind their own business(es).

I feel a deep revulsion for all eastern European (post)-Communist ruling elites who serve the interests of the so-called West. This disgust of mine includes Croatia's present ruling class as well.