President Komorowski: dialogue with Russia is necessary, but without … – Polish Radio

  President Bronislaw Komorowski and CEO of Foundation. Casimir Pulaski Zbigniew Pisarski during a dinner to celebrate the Warsaw Security Forum in Warsaw , photo PAP / Leszek Szymanski
 

The president also stressed that it is necessary to bring the EU in the field of security policy. Also argued that it does not just react to it, what does Russia, Ukraine, you need to act preventively.

Warsaw Security Forum is a two-day international conference with the participation of ministers of defense and foreign affairs of the EU, as well as advisers. security of the European Union Heads of State and experts, whose theme is military security, economic and energy of Europe.

The president in his speech at the forum pointed out that the current situation in the field of European security is very dynamic, especially in the East, but – as noted – also south of Europe is not without challenges and serious crises. According to the president, this is what happens in the EU’s southern neighborhood, in principle, is nothing new. – And what is happening in the east of our borders, from the borders of NATO and the EU, has the hallmarks of a completely new challenges due to the aggression of Russia against much smaller countries – Komorowski said.

Events for Ukraine indicate that ends a stage

– Probably the changes that have occurred in the security environment, there are changes in either permanent or at least long-term. With this you just have to count – rated president. He added that these events are unprecedented in recent European history. – The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the illegal annexation of concern for obvious reasons, Polish and other countries in the region. Anxiously looking at this phenomenon more and more a part of the Western world – Bronislaw Komorowski said.

He stressed that in the face of these phenomena come a time when you need to see that it is not enough just to respond to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, but ” you just have to counteract them beforehand. ” – You have to be proactive, just as the work being convinced that it is impossible to survive this phenomenon, it is impossible to pretend that it was about to probably end – said the president.

“It the cooperation of countries of the West “

– Without defining the strategic foundation of security policy, without strategic empowerment EU threatens us only to follow the changes that are imposed by someone else in a very strange scenario – convinced the president. According to the president, “peace dividend period in Europe was over.” – Can and should be argued about the end of the post-Cold War international relations – he added. As said, this period was characterized by constant offer of the West towards Russia cooperation.
According to the president, Russia, however, “explicitly rejected this offer.” He added that “the ideological background of the current conflict in Ukraine is a recurrence of the rhetoric of the previous century, a time when as Poland and many other countries in the region was part of the Soviet empire.”

Russia failed to modernize

The president noted that everyone would like to “modernizing Russia, cooperating, Russia that builds good relations with its neighbors, Russia’s leading business and good business contacts.” – All we would like, perhaps the Poles in the highest degree, but at the same time we know that the processes in Russia have not gone in this direction, as in many other countries in our part of Europe, which have found their place in the context of integrating the Western world – the president said.

“NATO can not keep up”

According to the president, “NATO’s reaction to a new type of Russian policy, which is reflected in the determination of the peak in Newport, is adequate, but strongly late “. As he spoke, the West “has not demonstrated acumen in a timely manner.” – Russia raised military spending 8 years in the last four years has increased by nearly 100 percent. expenditure on its own armed forces – he stressed. He added that at the same time, many NATO countries expenditure on the armed forces decreased. It was not an adequate response to the foreseeable risks – added the President.

He stressed that involves great hopes of the next NATO summit, which in 2016 in Warsaw. Will be an opportunity to confirm the cohesion of NATO and the implementation of political arrangements from Newport.

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President Komorowski: dialogue with Russia is necessary, but without … – Polish Radio