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Russia blasts EU siege statement
Yahoo UK ^ | 9/4/04 | Reuters

Posted on 09/04/2004 10:05:23 AM PDT by TrebleRebel

Russia blasts EU siege statement

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has described as "blasphemous" a request by the European Union for an explanation to the bloody end to a mass hostage seizure at a school by Chechen gunmen.

More than 320 people, almost half of them children were found dead after troops stormed a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, where the separatists held more than 1,000 hostages for 53 hours.

In a statement in the name of the presidency of the 25-nation EU, Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said on Friday that all countries should work together to stop such tragedies.

"But we also would like to know from the Russian authorities how this tragedy could have happened," he added.

The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted with outrage on Saturday.

"Mr. Bot's elaborations are an absolute contrast with the wide international support and solidarity with Russia in these tragic days," the ministry statement said.

"Inappropriate statements by the Dutch minister look odious ... and blasphemous," it added. "We expect explanations from the Dutch side."

Interfax news agency later said that the Dutch ambassador had been summoned to the Foreign ministry over Bot's statement.


TOPICS: Extended News; Russia
KEYWORDS: cair; cairsilentonchechnya; euarrogance; ossetia; silenceissupport; silenceofcair; whereiscair
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Afterwards the EU minister ordered the American ambassador in Holland to report to his office and demanded an explanation why 3,000 people were killed in New York on September 11, 2001. He than demanded to know why Hitler invaded Holland in 1940.
1 posted on 09/04/2004 10:05:23 AM PDT by TrebleRebel
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To: TrebleRebel

Elect sKerry and the EU will be his puppetmaster.


2 posted on 09/04/2004 10:06:41 AM PDT by BurbankErnie
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To: TrebleRebel

OMG


3 posted on 09/04/2004 10:07:03 AM PDT by republicangel
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To: TrebleRebel

'Blasts' is an awful word to use in the headline of this story.


4 posted on 09/04/2004 10:07:17 AM PDT by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: TrebleRebel

"Mr. Bot's elaborations are an absolute contrast with the wide international support and solidarity with Russia in these tragic days," the ministry statement said.

"Inappropriate statements by the Dutch minister look odious ... and blasphemous," it added. "We expect explanations from the Dutch side."


Ouch.


5 posted on 09/04/2004 10:07:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The economy won't matter if you're dead.)
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To: TrebleRebel

Talk about big, giant brass ones, huh?


6 posted on 09/04/2004 10:07:36 AM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: republicangel

Well, I believe Russia should expell a couple of these morons' ambassadors to sens a real message... as in we are not cowards if you are!


7 posted on 09/04/2004 10:08:07 AM PDT by Pitiricus
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To: TrebleRebel

Are we missing something?


8 posted on 09/04/2004 10:08:08 AM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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"But we also would like to know from the Russian authorities how this tragedy could have happened," he added.

...As he stumbled back into the hash bar.

9 posted on 09/04/2004 10:10:46 AM PDT by koolaidsmile ("Too weird to live, Too rare to die.")
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To: TrebleRebel

And now I wish Putin would send someone over to kick Bernard Bot's a**. I swear that's what these people need.


11 posted on 09/04/2004 10:11:20 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: TrebleRebel

We're with you on this one, Putin. Let's work together and kick some Islamofascist ass. Now about your planned sale of reactor equipment to Iran...


12 posted on 09/04/2004 10:11:37 AM PDT by inkling
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I want to be allied with the brave Russian people, not the cowards of the EU.

Did you see the scores of civilian EMTs, fire fighters and ordinary Ivans rushing the buildings to rescue children and fight the fires, just yards behind the commandos, under direct terrorist machinegun fire?

RUSSIANS ARE NOT COWARDS! GOD BLESS THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE!

13 posted on 09/04/2004 10:11:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: TrebleRebel

Photo of Bernard Bot, the idiot:

http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=32&par=1004


14 posted on 09/04/2004 10:11:49 AM PDT by i_dont_chat
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To: TrebleRebel
I agree with the Russians.

The EU needs to take their opinion, write it carefully on good paper, place it gently in a large German sausage coated with French pate, and...hmm, better not say that.

Let's just say that european homosexuals would enjoy the experience.

15 posted on 09/04/2004 10:11:55 AM PDT by neutrino (Globalization “is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.” (173))
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Talk about big, giant brass ones, huh?

Yeah, but they are hollow. I have a feeling Putin's are solid. He's not going to take any guff from the EU. He's not a member; he's not answerable to them, or to anyone else.

16 posted on 09/04/2004 10:12:27 AM PDT by wimpycat (John Kerry has a fevah, and the only prescription is "MORE COWBELL".)
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To: TrebleRebel
Beyond "blasphemous", Vlad.
The EU's leaders are twisted and infected from
their having drunk sputum directly from the lips
of the EU's greatest serial-mass-murderer.


17 posted on 09/04/2004 10:12:51 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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"But we also would like to know from the Russian authorities how this tragedy could have happened," he added.

I'm sure they asked Spain the same thing the day after those trains were bombed. </sarcasm>

18 posted on 09/04/2004 10:13:19 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: TrebleRebel

Hope the Russians wait until we pull out of Germany before they come through the pass.
EU don't like us ?
Let em deal with the next invader themselves.


19 posted on 09/04/2004 10:15:57 AM PDT by sawmill trash (We interrupt the regularly scheduled tagline to bring you this special tagline.)
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To: TrebleRebel

Under what authority does the EU make these demands? By 'authority', I mean what action can the EU possibly make to enforce their demands if Russia simply ignores them?


20 posted on 09/04/2004 10:16:31 AM PDT by StoneFury
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