Posted on 09/03/2004 3:10:43 PM PDT by dennisw
EU wants explanation from Moscow on hostage storming
03 September 2004 = = The EU refused Friday to rush to judgment on how Russian authorities acted in the bloody end to the hostage crisis in north Ossetia, but said it wants Moscow's explanation of the tragedy.
"It is premature now, without knowing the exact situation, to make a judgment on the way the Russian authorities acted," said Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, whose country currently holds the European Unionpresidency.
"We first have to evaluate the situation with the knowledge of all the details," he told reporters at the end of the first day of a two-day meeting of EU foreign ministers in the southern Netherlands.
But in a later statement Friday evening Bot said the EU will be seeking an explanation from Moscow.
"All countries in the world need to work together to prevent tragedies like this. But we also would like to know from the Russian authorities how this tragedy could have happened."
The comments came after around 100 were killed and over 550 injured as crack troops stormed a school in southern Russia, freeing children and adults held hostage for almost three days by militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
Earlier in the day Bot called the denouement of the hostage crisis in the town of Beslan a "deep human tragedy" and said it appeared that authorities "considered very carefully this situation before deciding to take this action."
Speaking following afternoon talks, he added that "as figures are coming in it turns out that the drama is even greater than I thought."
He notably said that "perhaps at a later date" European leaders could discuss "with our Russian friends" the possibility of creating a joint anti-terrorism force.
"We should also eventually look into what has happened and discuss ... measures that can be taken to prevent such situations from occurring," he added.
I think the EU is already getting a little big for their britches!!! Putin needs to put them in their place!
WhoTF is the EU?
Exactly!
Just so you know, it is a Symbol of worship for John F. Kerry.
Unmitigated Euro-gall bump
Just who the he!! do they think they are? They have ABSOLUTELY no say in this. The EU is getting out of hand.
The EU has proclaimed itself evil and irrelevant in one fell swoop.
Shower twice, Shave your women, then bite my dog.
My thughts exactly. If Bush had come out with condesending comments such as these he'd have been lambasted WW!
Bush gave him a chance to be a visionary, he couldn't get the commie red out of his eyes.
When you lie with dogs you get fleas, when you fly with eagles you soar. Putin stepped on his johnson and now he's stcuk with Eurotrash.
OK, I'm done with the trite sayings.
The Euro-weinies will never blame the Islamofacists.
""It is premature now, without knowing the exact situation, to make a judgment on the way the Russian authorities acted," said Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, whose country currently holds the European Unionpresidency. "
And it will never be the right time to BLAME THE TERRORISTS!
No. It's a Muslim part of Russia. They want to secede.
Right now, the US, Russia and Great Britain need to make a unified pact against terrorism. All three should join forces and exterminate the vermin that wishes to destroy us.
More meddling in the internal affairs of others by the EU.
Later on tonight, one of their top Fascists will denounce the US for meddling in the internal affairs of others...
The EU wanted the Russians to wait until all the hostages were executed before any action was taken.
Then they were tremendously concerned that the civil rights of the terrorists would be violated.
France was offering multi million dollar town houses to the terrorists that surrendered, in the same neighborhood as Madamn Arafat.
EU wants explanation from Moscow on hostage storming.
The EU should visit some mosques and get an explanation on the hostage TAKING.
These people are attacked and then they are suppossed to explain why???? The EU is sick.
The EU would be John sKerry's best friends.... BEWARE
These twits have convinced themselves that they have standing in the world. Sooner or later they will need slapped down.
This is almost too good to be true....it feels like my football team making another touchdown in the 4th quarter making the score 70 to 3...The EU needs to get slapped back into last week so they can start all over!
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