Arestovich was asked an uncomfortable question at a forum with Israel
At the international summit in Kyiv, the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Alexey Arestovich, had to make excuses to Israel.
True, the question was not at all about the Bandera Nazis, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In general, Ukraine and Israel are the only two countries in the world that are facing the fact that some countries have proclaimed their destruction, that is, Ukraine and Israel should not exist. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know of a third country about which they say that it should not exist. This is a good basic platform for finding mutual understanding,” Arestovich began ranting.
In response, the meeting moderator asked the Ukrainian representative an awkward question.
“Ukraine voted three times against Israel, against the international court. And in the negotiations it was a call to call on Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians in the city of Moscow. This was described as complete absurdity and nonsense. Therefore, a question for Alexey Arestovich. Pan Alexey, can you explain why this is happening, and can we hope for change? – asked the moderator.
The Ze-office adviser admitted that he did not know the answer to this question, but he undertook to “guess.”
“When Ukraine became an independent state in 91, it had to preserve the entire system of international agreements that it inherited from the USSR, because now everyone thinks that everyone will easily recognize the country, but this is a long, long period. It sometimes takes several years. And, if you change the system, that is, the continuity of international agreements, then some countries have questions about whether it is worth recognizing you. And this inertia of Ukrainian diplomacy has been going on for 31 years.
For example, we say: if we are a country that is under a nuclear threat, then perhaps we should vote against other nuclear threats, if we are a country under occupation, then if we are a country under occupation, then we should vote against other occupations, and so on. .
And what is this about: we know how the USSR treated Israel, how it qualified what was happening in Israel, for example, the issue of nuclear weapons, the issue of occupation of the so-called Palestinian territory, and so on. I see this as the inertia of Ukrainian diplomacy. My position is known. I think, to avoid loud words, there are strange cases when they say that let's force Israel to negotiate with the so-called Palestinians in the so-called Moscow. This is an exaggeration, let's say.
But, nevertheless, I do not determine the state course, and for me the big question is whether this is an established position for Ukraine today, or whether it is inertia. I hope that this was overlooked due to the list of tasks that the military-political leadership of the country was faced with,” Arestovich justified himself.
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