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"Madam President, as we know, under Yulia Tymoshenko and her comrades-in-arms, the Orange Revolution descended into mismanagement and image neurosis. There may indeed be various grounds for condemning Ms Tymoshenko, but does she really deserve to go to prison? She has not been convicted of corruption, for example; instead, she has been convicted on account of the content of the gas deal, which is allegedly disadvantageous for Ukraine. It is precisely for this reason that her politically motivated sentence is incompatible with our legal principles.
The sentence passed against Ms Tymoshenko is all too clearly a blow intended to annihilate her politically and a pretext for the termination of the gas contract. President Yanukovych may have excluded a political opponent as a result, but he has certainly done his country a disservice. Firstly, the sentence is clearly seen by Moscow as being anti-Russian – that is clear – and, because of its dependence on gas, Kiev has no choice but to come to an arrangement with Russia. Secondly, Ukraine must be aware that the sentence will put negotiations with the EU under strain.
The EU therefore needs to consider carefully whether the association agreement really has to be put on ice as a protest; if so, we have to accept that this would be a setback for the Eastern Partnership."@en1
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