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"en.20140206.30.4-223-000"2
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"Mr President, we need to beware of being glib; we need to beware of blundering in. Ukraine is a vast and complex country – a country which, by some measures, suffered proportionately more than any other from the slaughters of the 20th Century, with the anti-kulak campaign and the purges between the wars. We can see, in Slavophile Western eyes, a very clear distinction in the ancient borders between the Romanoff and Habsburg parts of Ukraine. The word ‘Ukraine’ itself, as I understand it, means edge or borderland.
We should not think that it is up to us to blunder in and decree a solution. Obviously we have our sympathies and I, like everyone else in this House, sympathise with people who want pluralism and the rule of law and personal liberty. But the protestors are in danger of tipping from those demands into demanding a coup. Although we may not like the actions of the Ukrainian Government, it was a fairly elected government. I would much prefer a free trade arrangement to a customs union. I prefer that for my own country with the European Union, let alone for Ukraine, but we are attacking the very concept of democracy which is the thing that we are supposedly here to support."@en1
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