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Commitments under the helsinki final act under the united nations charter. if it wants to help protect ethnic russians, as it purports to, and if they were threatened, we would support efforts to protect them, as would, i am told, the government of ukraine. but if they want to do that, russia could work with the legitimate government of ukraine, which it has pledged to do. it cannot only permit, but must encourage international monitors to deploy throughout ukraine. these are the people who coul...

Commitments under the helsinki final act under the united nations charter. if it wants to help protect ethnic russians as it purports to and if they were threatened, with he would support effort to protect them as would, i am told, the government of ukraine. if they want to do that, russia could work with the religion it matt government of ukraine which it has pledged to do. it cannot only permit but must encourage international monitors to deploy throughout ukraine. these are the people that ac...

Are not seeking confrontation. there is a better way for russia to pursue its legitimate interests in ukraine. if you werely worried about -- legitimately worried about some of your citizens go to the government, talk to them about it, go to the u.n., raise the issue in the security council. go to the osce. raise it in one of the human rights organizations. there are countless outlets that an organized, structured, decent world has struggled to put together to resolve these differences so we don...

Termts of where they can go and what overseas assets they can touch. there are a whole array of economic responses that could deliver the right message to putin, even if they dont get him to back down. >> michael hirsch, douglas br g brinkly, thank you so much for your perspective. we are awaiting a news conference from kiev from secretary of state, john kerry. we are joined by christiane amanpour. natos secretary general once said that russia is violating its international commitments. russia...

The president pushed back and had tough talk for putin. >> there is strong belief russias actions is violating international law. president putin seems to have a different set of lawyers, making a different set of interpretations, but i dont think thats fooling anybody. >> the president went on to insist that it is put wrin who looks weak on the world stage because of his aggression. interesting because the last time these two leaders spoke was over the weekend. you will remember they had that 9...

>> not all of those conversations are very pleasant. you have an israeli minister saying kerry is anti-semitic. >> i think it was a back venture -- >> i mean israel is a democracy and people can say different things. but the government doesnt believe that, not for a moment. the process can work if the palestinians show the sort of plexibility thats required of them as well. my prime minister has done a settlement freeze and been releasing security prisoners, convicted terrorists and taking tough...

Independent nation of ukraine and a breach of russias hell cinch can i commitments and -- helsinki commitments. the question is whether the -- constitutes a danger to russias interests to such an extent that russia is justified in intervening militarifully ukraine, seizing control of public facilities and issuing ultimatums. the answer is, of course, no. russian military bases in ukraine are secure. the new government in kiev has pledged to honor all of its intissing international agreements, in...

Signatories are threatened or used force against ukraine and its independence. where does that stand? and is it law? >> what that document did, it pulled together a number of commitments that the united states, britain and russia had by virtue of the fact that ukraine was a member of the organization and a member of the united nations. it didnt commit new concerns for nonuse of threat or coalition. in the way that ukraine in 1994 felt it was politically valuable. however, its not a treaty. there...

>> what happened in europe, the german army is 32,000 or something like that. they simply dont have the defense spending such as the french and british. >> american public will support these kinds of commitments only if the american president uses the leadership to explain to them why its necessary. and lets sort of understand the context. you mentioned the pivot to asia. made a special trip to asia to reassure that it was real. they doubted our commitment to syria. in all of the areas of the wo...

Europe on which peace and stability in europe rests. we call on russia to deescalate tensions. we call on russia to honor all its international commitments, to withdraw its forces to its bases, and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in ukraine. we urge both parties to immediately seek a peaceful resolution through dialogue, through the dispatch of international observers under auspices of security council or oec. we emphasize the importance of an included political process in ukraine bas...