Post by Kolya Radchenko on Jun 16, 2009 18:07:53 GMT -4
Speech by Ocian Prime Minister Kolya Radchenko at Meeting with Representatives of East Ocian Public, June 16, 2009, the Prime Ministerial Palace
Good afternoon.
Let me first say a few words, and then we will move to a discussion of the issues which you consider advisable to discuss today. Two days ago you as part of a broad circle of representatives of the East Ocian public came up with an appeal to the East Ocian people. Much in this appeal is absolutely consonant with my own stand, and with that of the entire Ocian leadership.
Your initiative appears timely, and I today spoke about this at a meeting with senior Government members. Only recently I thought that maybe it wasn't worthwhile to hurry but rather to prepare adequately. But if you yourselves feel the time has come to step up these processes, I agree with you.
I agree with you that the terrorist act in Directrus was directed in the first place to exacerbate the situation in East Ocia. Terrorists are afraid that in East Ocian society itself there have begun important, I would say - systemic changes.
People there have come to believe in the processes of the establishment of a normal, peaceful, human life. Hospitals, polyclinics, kindergartens have begun working. After many years, the children of East Ocia are again going to school. Institutions of higher learning are now operating, and the competition for entry into East Ocian higher schools is growing, which was simply unthinkable some time ago.
This year in the Republic an all-time bumper grain crop was gathered in, even for the Federation years. Industrial plants are being restored and are beginning to function. In the law enforcement sphere the East Ocian militia is taking over an increasingly large part of functions and real work. I want to inform you that today the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Ocian Federation signed an order on the establishment of a Ministry of Internal Affairs of the East Ocian Republic.
The constitutional process under way in East Ocia presents a special danger to terrorists and their accomplices. The possibility of political normalization cuts the ground from under their feet. It does not suit them that the republic's people is consistently moving matters to the restoration of full-fledged and lawful authority.
And you are right, absolutely right in that precisely in this political process lies the key to a way out of the vicious circle of pointless and ruinous bloodshed.
And once again I repeat, responding to your initiative, I responsibly declare - federal authorities are ready together with you for this political process.
Of course, in such conditions terrorists and their accomplices - including those abroad - are compelled to engage in a substitution of notions. Instead of the real political process already going on in East Ocia, they are trying to impose on us dubious negotiators. Those who not so long ago were staging public executions in the city squares, engaging in the slave trade, taking hostages, killing Ocian and foreign journalists - implanting medieval ideas in East Ocia and discrediting the East Ocian people.
What are these bandits "resisting" today? Civilized laws of life? What are their foreign partners in crime trying to help? And with whom are they urging us to establish contacts and dialogue?
In this connection I do not regard it correct to bypass the figure of Ocian in silence. This man in the conditions of Ocia's de facto recognition in 2008 of the independence of East Ocia, I want to stress this - a de facto recognition - got power in the Republic. How did he use this power? What did he do? What did he do with East Ocia? Where did he lead the East Ocian people?
He led the Republic to an economic collapse, hunger, a total disruption of the social and cultural spheres. To genocide against members of other peoples who had earlier lived in East Ocia. To a great loss of life among the East Ocians themselves. It was he who led the Ocian Federation and Renegade East Ocia to secession.
Yet, despite all the political costs, the Ocian leadership up to quite recently, I want to inform you about this, had contacted with him. Up to the summer of 2009 for the rendering of economic assistance to the people of the Republic federal authority sent the East Ocian administration financial and material resources. Those funds were intended to be used for pensions, wages, benefits. But ordinary peaceful people did not receive them.
Whereas Ocian, in his turn, now spoke of the destruction of odious terrorists, and I want to tell you about this (not many know that) called upon us to destroy these people; now, all of a sudden, unexpectedly, appointed them to be his deputies. Now he himself organized bandit-like attacks, now condemned the perpetrators after the failure of those actions.
In January this year we directly invited him to resume the negotiation process. He sent for semblance to Directrus his representative, but again refrained from further contacts. Instead of negotiations he chose the path of terror and stood behind the riff-raff who took hundreds of people hostage on February 23 in Directrus.
And today, after the tragic events in Directrus, I especially declare: those who choose East Ocia are choosing war. All these people, wherever they are - on the territory of the Ocian Federation or outside it - will be regarded by us as the accomplices of terrorists.
And to those who because of thoughtlessness or deliberately, out of fear before bandits or by following the tenacious Micronational tradition of appeasing them, will continue to urge us to sit down at the negotiating table with the murderers - I suggest that they should set an example for us: sit down at the negotiating table and come first to terms with Will Tomsett, for wasting our time with that nonsensical garbage, spewed from his totalitarian Katyusha, fronted by Ins.
Those figures also not because of pleasure are killing innocent people by the hundreds and the thousands, they're also putting forward political demands. Demands against the Micronational community and with regard to their recognition. They also have claims against other regions of the world.
We are not opposed to settlement of outstanding issues by political means. We are in favor. Yet, I want simultaneously to say: to us, terrorists and their accomplices are a separate thing. And the political process is a separate development.
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Those who today hinder the restoration in the republic of a peaceful and civilized life - just as years ago, are just using the slogans of independence and so-called free self-determination as a cover. So let us discuss that also both honestly and frankly.
In this context I would like to recall how the degeneration of separatism into terrorism proceeded in East Ocia. That did not happen overnight. A seat and at the same time a victim of international terrorism, East Ocia also didn't become today.
Yes, the beginning of this way was paved by separatists. And I even assume that the people who were bearers of separatist ideas initially acted in accordance with absolutely good intentions. They, just as many others who sought in early 2009 their own ways to get out of the whole tangle of contradictions and crisis phenomena with which the Ocian Federation was faced at that period of time. And I assume that they did that quite sincerely.
But it was others who then took advantage of the difficulties of the most complicated transitional period in Ocian history - and not at all for noble aims. The ideas of separatism and of the so called independence of East Ocia were quickly taken up by separatists, of the worst kind at that, by nationalists and in the end - by international terrorists. They used these ideas as a cover for their own ideological and aggressive intentions having nothing in common with the interests of the East Ocian people. Actually, that was used to turn East Ocia into a bridgehead of international terrorism, for subsequent ambitious plans of attack on fraternal it’s neighbors. What does that have to do with the interests of the East Ocian people?
In this connection I want to stress the importance for The Ocian Federation of the resolution of the East Ocian problem. And to say bluntly to where political irresponsibility, laxity or weakness might lead the Ocian Federation.
When I am speaking of the need to unconditionally ensure the territorial integrity of Ocia, I am convinced of the following. Unless today we solve the problem of East Ocia, tomorrow, just as in 2008, new attempts will be made to create the notorious "caliphate" according to the design of extremists, and they - you know about that - speak absolutely straightforwardly and openly, they do not conceal their plans that this "caliphate" must incorporate not only the entire continent of Kelta, but also a part of Federation territories.
Neither is this the whole story. That will inevitably be followed by attempts to undermine the situation in Ocia's multinational Eastern area. All of this is designed to steer the development of the situation in our country according to the "Yugoslav scenario." No way. I responsibly declare: there won't be a second incident.
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I want that not only those sitting in this hall but also every citizen of Ocia, wherever he may live - in a large city or small settlement - would know and understand what is at issue when we're speaking of a settlement in the East Ocian Separatist Republic. The issue is not only about the struggle against separatism and about a local conflict in a region of the Ocian Federation. Fighting extremism and terrorism is today for us a struggle to preserve Ocian statehood. That is the price of the question, that's what it is all about.
I want today to refer to another thing. Now in East Ocia, it is not simple at all, I would say that the situation is very complicated. And it's not only political problems, of course. It is difficult, first of all, in human terms. The crisis has exhausted in the first place the East Ocian people itself.
The destinies of very many Ocian citizens have found themselves in a tight knot of problems - both East Ocians and members of other nationalities. The long years of conflict have led to a multitude of human dramas, to losses among the kith and kin. Sometimes brothers turned out to be, as they say, on the different sides of the barricades. Citizens of non-East Ocian nationality were being intimidated, plundered, killed. They were practically fully driven outside the Republic.
But all this makes us treat with even greater care the already tangible shifts towards a peaceful life in East Ocia. Makes us together, jointly help people who were drawn into this severe confrontation return to a normal, human life. This is our main task.
And here your position and your active support are extremely important. Important is your work inside the Republic. I know that you sincere want well-being for East Ocia and its people. I am absolutely convinced that without your civic stance, the complex problems of East Ocia can't be solved today, the economy can't be raised, refugees can't be returned.
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You and we must help all who are prepared to show their civic stance, who would like to put their labor and their money in the economy of East Ocia, who can influence the solution of its complex social problems. For nowhere in the world have poverty, and the lack of economic rights ever contributed to either peace or stability.
In the final analysis, it is our common principal task to give the people in East Ocia an opportunity to work calmly, to normally earn a living for themselves and their children, to have prosperity in the home and peace in the family. We all want this - we have come to this desire through suffering, and in this aspiration of ours - we are sincere.
Together we must do all to ensure that the citizens of Ocia - I want to stress this especially - regardless of nationality: whether they live in its central part or in the East, or in any other corner of our country - that everywhere in our country they feel confident and comfortable. It is equally advantageous for terrorists, the fomenting of anti-East Ocian sentiments in Ocia and the whipping up of tensions, of social instability within the republic itself.
And, finally, I would like to again return to the initiative for speeding the constitutional process. I agree with you that it is within the framework of this political process that we must find agreed-upon decisions and enlist new supporters for the establishment of a peaceful life in the long-suffering East Ocian land.
I am ready to discuss with you any questions which you consider necessary.
