Morning Star.png Trudeau ignores abuses, signs Ukraine trade pact Meanwhile, a Communist woman leader is held without trial James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 12 July 2016 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a free trade agreement with Ukraine yesterday even as political prisoners continued to languish in jail. The Liberal Party PM took the opportunity to blame Russia and Kiev for slow progress in implementing the Minsk II peace agreement. “It is obvious that Ukraine has made some extremely important and difficult steps in parliament and in their institutions to live up to their responsibilities on Minsk,” Mr Trudeau said. “And it’s also clear that the security side of the Minsk implementation, Russia has not been a positive partner.” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a press conference at the end of the talks in Kiev that the free trade deal will do away with “99 per cent of barriers within the next seven years in trade” between the two countries. Mr Trudeau announced £10 million-worth of “humanitarian aid” to Kiev, currently locked in civil war with anti-fascists in the east which broke away after February 2014’s coup, backed by far-right groups and Western powers including Canada. But when asked about the possibility arms sales to Ukraine, he said: “Right now the focus is on the training mission” that Canada is conducting with the Ukrainian army. Alla Aleksandrovskaya 2.jpg Alla Aleksandrovskaya Meanwhile the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) condemned the continued detention of its Kharkiv Regional Committee First Secretary and former MP Alla Aleksandrovskaya on trumped-up charges since the start of the month. She was arrested for infringement of the territorial integrity of Ukraine — a charge commonly levelled against critics of the government’s war on the eastern Donbass region. The Kharkiv court of appeal did not allow Ms Aleksandrovskaya to attend an appeal against her imprisonment last Friday, but the KPU said members of neonazi group Right Sector were present. Alla Aleksandrovskaya.jpeg Alla Aleksandrovskaya It said the fascists “formed up” the jury to sing the national anthem and shout: “Glory to the nation — death to the enemy.” Advocate Alexander Shadrin said that Ms Aleksandrovskaya’s prosecution was intended “to shut her mouth, to isolate her from public and do not even bring her to trial.” The KPU warned that its 67-year-old’s member health was “a great concern” and “there is a high risk of death if timely medical care is not provided.” From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-967a-Ukraine-Trudeau-turns-blind-eye-t o-Kievs-abuses-and-signs-trade-pact#.V4SElfl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-967a-Ukraine-Trudeau-turns-blind-eye-to -Kievs-abuses-and-signs-trade-pact#.V4SElfl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13788 (20160712) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001e01d1dc0b%246b5a0e30%24420e2a90%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
