The recently published interview on The Reporter by Dr. Géza Andreas von Geyr, State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, necessitates a comprehensive response to my esteemed colleague. It is regrettable, though perhaps not much surprising, to witness a former German Ambassador to the Russian Federation resorting to such legally hollow and historically detached rhetoric, which fundamentally misrepresents the geopolitical realities of both the European continent and the Horn of Africa.
Such statements necessitate a rigorous, fact-based rebuttal to ensure the Ethiopian public is not misled by the tired clichés of the Western “rules-based order” and to clarify the genuine genesis of the current global situation. The State Secretary’s assertion regarding a so-called unprovoked aggression is a deliberate falsification of the origins of the Ukrainian crisis. The tragic events did not commence four years ago, but rather in 2014 following a Western-sponsored, unconstitutional armed coup in Kiev that empowered radical nationalist forces.
For eight subsequent years, the Kiev regime waged a brutal punitive campaign against the peaceful Russian-speaking population of the Donbass, resulting in systemic human rights violations and atrocities meticulously documented by authorities of Donetsk and Lugansk Regions. During this entire period, the Russian Federation exhaustively pursued a peaceful diplomatic settlement through the UN-endorsed Minsk Agreements, which consequent Ukrainian Governments ignored. Moreover, many years after the then leaders of Germany Angela Merkel and of France Franҁois Hollande cynically and openly admitted that the Minsk process for them was nothing more than a premeditated diplomatic forgery designed solely to buy time to pump Ukraine with weapons.
Furthermore, the attempt to portray the Kiev regime as a willing peacemaker while accusing Moscow of intransigence is contradicted by immutable legal facts. The international community is well aware that the head of the Kiev regime signed a legally binding decree prohibiting any negotiations with the Russian leadership – a decree that remains in full force up to today. In contrast, President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have consistently reaffirmed Russia’s readiness to engage in serious, substantive diplomacy that acknowledges the new territorial realities, addresse…
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