Source: https://www.vz.ru/world/2017/5/30/872466.html
Translated by Eugenia
The Senate in the Netherlands confirmed in the most unobtrusive manner the Association agreement of Ukraine with the EU – against the decision of the last year referendum. The local press barely reported the event. In an attempt to explain why the will of the people was ignored, the analysts repeated the same argument over and over: a refusal to ratify the agreement would have been “a gift to Putin”, which is, of course, unthinkable.
This Tuesday the Senate – the upper chamber of the Parliament – of the Netherlands ratified the Association and free trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU (the lower chamber approved the document at the end of February, before the parliamentary elections). Fifty out of 75 senators voted for it. The Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the Foreign Minister Bert Koenders attended the Senate session, which happened extremely rarely.
It was decided to forget about 62% of the Netherlands citizens
The decision to ratify was predetermined a week ago by the results of the debates on the issue. As the main arguments in favor of ratifications, the senators named the need to support democracy in Ukraine and preserve the reputation of the Netherlands as a reliable and predictable partner. The Netherlands was the last country in the EU that had not yet approved of the document.
Most parliamentary parties voted in support of the document including – which is rich – 9 out of 12 members of Christian-Democratic Appeal – the very same party that before the elections promised to vote against the agreement. The Freedom Party of Hard Wilders voted against as planned, as did other opposition parties – the Socialist party, the Party for the Animals, the “50PLUS”.
Now only formalities are left, such as signing of the document by the king Will-Alexander. “We have made a step closer to ratification. I hope the process will be concluded quickly by the summit EU-Ukraine in July”, – said the President of the European Commission Jean-Claud Juncker, as cited by TASS.
The news from Hague caused much excitement in Kiev. “Ukraine is being integrated into the European politics in many areas, – announced the President Petr Poroshenko. – “The agreement of the association and free trade with the EU coming into effect and visa-free travel regime, which will start in 10 days, – these are all important steps in our movements toward the united Europe”.
“The next trick” did not come off
The Ukrainian political establishment sees no inconsistency in the situation when the authorities of the Netherlands, which is considered one of the most democratic countries, decided to ignore the results of the referendum. The Ukrainian MP from the “Block of Petr Poroshenko”, adviser to the Minister of Informational Policy Alexander Braginetz believes that the Netherlands citizens could not have possibly voted in the referendum as they did on their own accord – they were corrupted by Moscow. ‘Russia bought out that referendum, spent a lots of money in order to ruin that association agreement. Did everything it could. But the next Putin’s trick did not come off. Anyway, the referendum had little significance. It was advisory in nature”, – said Braginetz to VSGLYAD (vsglyad (russ) – a look, a glance; also in some context – point of view – translator’s note) newspaper.
A question from VSGLYAD how Moscow could manage to buy off the majority of the Netherlands citizens presented no problem for the MP. Braginetz had an explanation: “It has been already proven that many participants in the campaign before the referendum that supposedly acted on behalf of Ukraine in reality did everything to turn the voters against Ukraine”.
Let us remind the readers that the ratification process dragged for more than three years. The agreement was concluded immediately after the coup in Ukraine in 2014. A year after that, the Netherlands was on the verge of ratifying the agreement, but postponed ratification, since it was decided to conduct an advisory referendum, which took place in April of last year. A majority – 62% of the Netherlands citizens – voted against ratification. The results shocked the Ukrainian public opinion. A myth about an unconditional support for Ukraine in the EU was destroyed.
To somehow get out of the embarrassing situation, the EU authorities decided to pretend that they were paying attention to the opinions of the Netherlands citizens. Unable to burry the association agreement, at the following EU summit on Ukraine they announced that the concerns of the people of the Netherlands would be taken into account. The agreement was supplemented with a declaration consisting of several points: the agreement is not a first step for Ukraine towards the EU membership; it does not provide for any financial assistance to Kiev and does not grant to the citizens of Ukraine the right to live and work in the EU. In essence, Ukraine was offered a Moldova-style model, a country whose chances for the EU membership nobody even mentions these days.
Later Rutte, whose party managed to secure victory in the March elections, decided to initiate the ratification process again based on the adopted declaration.
The referendum was not useless
The Director of the Center of the Eurasian Studies Vladimir Kornilov residing in the Netherlands remarks that the Netherland media on Tuesday refrained from bringing up the issue of the referendum. “They mention the subject in passing, but do not press the point, because the media from the start was in favor of ratification,” – said Kornilov to VSGLYAD.
According to him, on the eve of the voting only a couple of short columns were published, which, furthermore, “justified the decision to approve ratification in advance saying that, well, we need to oppose Russia, and if the Netherlands does not ratify the agreement, that would play into Putin’s hands”.
“The public opinion, of course, is against the agreement. This is obvious from the blogosphere, from the heated discussions of the subject there. The problem is not so much the ruling party but Christian-Democratic Appeal, the party that before the elections promised to vote against ratification but now supported it without batting an eye”.
Nevertheless, the people’s will expressed at the referendum still did have an effect. Kornilov reminded us how the subject of the association was presented to the Netherlands public during the last several months: as a result of the referendum, the Netherlands succeeded in including the EU declaration into the agreement, “which effectively put en end to the aspirations of Ukraine for the EU membership”. He added:” We should not forget that the Netherlands referendum indeed played some role in this”.
In contrast, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova is convinced that the Netherlands public has been cheated. “Their own leaders have done that, once again having armed themselves with openly russophobic propaganda. This, by the way, is a direct confirmation of the essentially anti-Russian nature of the Ukraine-EU association agreement, regardless of how many times we have been assured that it was not so”, – summed up Zakharova.
So the Netherlands just officially entered the ranks of dictatorships.That refuse to honor the votes of their citizens. I’m sort of glad in a way. Its nice to wipe the false mask of “democracy” away from a EU state.It makes it much easier to call them a “regime”. And not give a “flying F” about their opinion on issues. So,one more time,I’ll give the old truism. You can’t change countries in the West (at least) by voting.Revolution is the only way. So hopefully we won’t see more of these silly votes. But instead more of the Donbass and Crimean style revolts. Strange as it seems tiny Donbass and Crimea expressed the will of the “people” by revolting against the junta and holding referendums that showed their peoples real feelings. Than any set of elections I’m seen in the West since that time (and long before as well).They showed what “true” civic minded citizens look like. Not the phony mess we have in the West.By being small and without state allies,Donbass has suffered (and still does suffer) for their freedom.But those people look like giants compared to the Dutch,French,British,and US “voters” in the years since 2014. Too bad there aren’t more of them.We could trade a lot of “snowflakes” in the West for some real true citizens.
….what else to expect from the mob that fixed the MH17 coverup, oh sorry my bad, investigation
I wonder whether this will have fallout in future elections in the Netherlands.
It should.
Katherine
It should, you’re totally right but it won’t. The majority in the Netherlands have become even more sheeple than the average western citizen. They are my fellow countrymen but I can no longer discuss matters with most of them because they generally believe what the MSM tells them and it makes me want to kick in their teeth. Example, even those in my extended family who should be most informed still believe the official version of 9/11 and no proof is good enough to make them change their minds. Worse even, those who do know better don’t dare open their mouths. Welcome in ‘Brave New World’.
It is perfectly consistant with wat Juncker said ‘There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties’.
The EU is no longer a democracy an in an Orwellian and Freudian way, they blame Russia and Putin of everything they are doing themselves so obviously.
Luckily Russia has a lot of supporters amongst the common people. Internet forums are full of comments in support of Russia. Lots of people understood the game US/Nato/EU is playing and find it extremely false and dangerous.
Democracy is a farce, they promise with elections and once they get your vote and they have the power they do what they desire and forget about their promises democracy is a trick to keep the people calm.
Do not trust your government.
From the Netherlandso
I live in the Netherlands and the gouverment is corrupt as hell. You can trust nobody there and most people are onawere about all they need to know. Look at Frans Timmermans crying and liying about the MH17 and now a top position in the EU. I feel often to live in a Naziregime.
You do! Read “the Rise of the Fourth Reich” by Marr published not long ago and provable.
Zakharova should keep her mouth shut as long as her government recognizes and treats the Kiev junta as legal government of the Ukraine.
What about the will of the people in LNR & DNR Ms. Zakharova? You behave as if you don’t know who you’re dealing with in the West…
Zakharova works for a “country” that was illegally created by the USA and implemented as a private corporation itself in 1991, ignoring the will of 80% of Soviet citizens that had voted to restore the USSR in the March 1991 union-wide Referendum:
Россия колония США. СССР существует юридически! Почему в РФ вы все мигранты, а в СССР граждане?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CPrdgfC8y8
Жители Нижнего Тагила требуют через суд признать их гражданами СССР. «Это первый случай в российской судебной практике»
https://mstrok.ru/news/zhiteli-nizhnego-tagila-trebuyut-cherez-sud-priznat-ih-grazhdanami-sssr.-eto-pervyj-sluchaj-v-rossijskoj-sudebnoj-praktike.html?_utl_t=vk
The question is if Putin is happy with that or simply cannot change it for the better.
Ahh, and the West – what it is we saw with the Costa Rica Referendum yesterday with a record low turnout of 23 percent: https://www.rt.com/usa/391888-puerto-rico-yes-referendum/
As a service to those clueless western audiences who cannot imagine these claims, dig a bit in the following pdf file which contains hundreds of passport images from different eras.
http://www.passport-collector.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/USSR_Russian-passports.pdf
Such as go to page 16:
USSR Service Passport:
interesting example, Soviet Union service passport but issued in 1993 by
Ukraine. It has stamps with Ukrainian coat of arms and the word
СЛУЖБОВИЙ
in Ukrainian
(English word for SERVICE
or following pages:
Introduction to the Russian Passport System since
1980 by Albert Vokhmin, Russia
page
17
of
49
http://www.passport
-collector.com –
the ONLY website for collectors
14/09/11
1997
– 2004
The
very first
RUSSIAN passport
with
Russian coat of
arms and new design were issued from 1997 till the
beginning of 2004
and
contains
36 pages, it doesn’t have lamination on the personal information
page
and
validity
was 5 years.
Now, if you believe that the RF is no longer just the RSFSR (which btw according to wikipedia was dismantled not in 1991 but in 1993), then let me know how it comes that the RF did not even issue its own Passports until 1997.
So what is your point? Are you foolishly trying to say the RF doesn’t exist? As for issuing passports.The RF was considered the successor state of the USSR. Maybe they just didn’t get around to making their own passports until then.But whatever the reason. Its totally unimportant today in 2017. Russia the “RF” exists and its the World’s largest state. With a military power,and a leader, who has the envy of the World.Those are the things in 2017 that matter.
Yes, but not “foolishly” as you claim, Sir.
Watch out for who owns its central bank and with it its currency (through the BIS via Basel).
As a matter of military power, the banking cartel owns Russia.
Under (true, but powerless) international law it is still the CCCP occupied by a hostile network of international finance parasites.
Listen to the clips I posted.
Then verify or debunk me. Prediction: You can’t.
Sorry I destroyed your world-view.
It’s all little more than theatre.
No: What really matters is who controls the currencies. Who does do is the same one who owns the media, your president, you and perhaps even your beliefs.
USA is also a private firm. But believe what you like most. Red pill or blue pill?
Ah, and had you at least opened the pdf document http://www.passport-collector.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/USSR_Russian-passports.pdf you would already have found something contradicting your latest statement:
On page 39 you find, that new Soviet passports were introduced in 1993, with the older ones getting phased out:
1993
– 1997
After 06 February 1992 all citizens of the USSR who had official registration (propiska) on the territory of the
RSFSR became citizens of the Russian Federation. Old Soviet Union passports were valid but in 1993
design of the passports changed slightly. These passports were issued from ~
1993 till 1997 and were
completely withdrawn from circulation in 2003. These passports are very similar to older ones but have
some changes:
Sorry,but I can’t discus total foolishness like that. Yes,the oligarchical class worldwide has a lot (way too much) influence. But the RF isn’t “owned” by them. As to the passport issue you seem strangely to be fixated with. The RF and the USSR (as in any government) had a lot in common. Its not strange at all that passports would be created in a similar fashion. It would be more strange if they weren’t.
So the Federal Reserve is for example also not a privately owned bank then?
And is it not true that the Cabal has enslaved the entire world by means of issuing privately owned currencies to (former) countries at interest?
Excuse me, but it appears you are the one who is not informed.
You responded with mere counter-claims, but no proof.
Instead you say you “cannot discuss such foolishess”.
Well, there you go.
In my humble but comradely view you need a firmware upgrade:
the tower of basel
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+tower+of+basel
Brother: According to your logic it doesn’t matter that a treasonous separatist mafia in Kiev is illegally occupying the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 2017 – accoring to valid but not enforced International law?
I wonder why Putin – as much as I often admire him – isn’t doing anything about it to bring the truth to a wider audience.
Most Russian newspapers are ultra-liberal anti-Russian pro wall-street mouthpieces.
And on 1st channel you hardly get rid of the commercial advertisements all the time.
Is that a pro-Russian Russia or what?
If an existing approach doesn’t work it is madness to assume different results.
Don’t care about me.
But the West and its 5th column inside Russia are speeding up to create a Maidan in Russia.
I noticed that on western media during recent days.
Admittedly I no longer know on which side Putin stands.
On one hand I think he’s the best world-leader this planet can have in modern times. And I alwas defend him against western hate propaganda. Then again I see the economic suffering and social injustice in Russia. Ask the pensioners. Or ask those in Moscow whose 1000 Chrchtchev era appartment buildings across the city centre are going to be demolished soon, in favour of resetteling the poor to the suburbs while constructing sky-scrapers for the Oligarchs on the fresh speculative building-zone.
Now you hit on a subject we can agree on. I too think the Kiev junta should be destroyed. And Novorossia (if not all Ukraine) reunited into Russia. But the problem is complicated. Western propaganda over decades has divided the people in Western (and some of Central) Ukraine from their “Russianness” . The 5th column inside Russia also has too much power (for now). And on a political level,Novorossia is a hotbed of nationalist “and” communist sympathies. And the centralist United Russia fears bringing them into the RF. Combine all those reasons together and you have some idea of the complexity of the issue.Now me personally,would reject those fears and bring them into the RF. But I don’t get a say on it.
I agree on most of that.
And I’m too well aware of the complexity involved.
In my view deaths of innocent childs and women should have been avoided by performing this step in 2014.
Then I also heard the counterarguments often enough.
Anyways, with the international law fuzz always propagated by the West one as the largest country of the world owning the 2nd largest stock pile of weapons maybe it would have been wise to remind the West long ago of how the international people’s law really looks like.
All the dead cannot be revived anymore.
Others claim that millions of lives have been saved that way.
Hard to say.
But in my view reviving the CCCP full style would have been the cleanest solution with the broadest international partisan support and the least innocent victims.
Gorbatchev and Yeltsin deserved to get a bullet back in the day. To be timely can be significant. Especially for such bullets. Now look how many people have been empowerished and how many were not born and how many beacme drugs addicts and for how many got murdered in NATO created “conflicts”, not only in CCCP but worldwide. Possible only because the is no Soviet Union anymore.
Is it an exaggeration if we say that hundreds of millions have died (already!), simply because Gorbachev and Yeltsin (and some behind the scenes) were not neutralized?
Same about Rockefellers, Rothschilds etc.
I knew this was going to happen, they did the same with the European constitution referendum. We said no with a wide margin. They changed the name from constitution to Lisbon treaty changed a few words here and there and signed the treaty totally disrespecting the referendum outcome.
Yes. Another name but the same content.
Three little words: Royal Dutch Shell.
Zakharova the Ukraine-EU agreement is , as the US demands, essentially anti-Russian.She is 100
correct. Netherlands is supposed to help destroy Russia later. The ‘agreement’ leads to that time.
Under Mark Rutte, the Netherlands Parliament is an US vassal government body as is the EU.