Ukraine to take all measures to prevent escalation of frozen conflicts and attempts to settle them by force, says Yushchenko

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said that Ukrainian citizens have always been kind to their neighbors and partners. "We have a clear foreign position - neighborly relations, mutual cooperation and the strict observance of international standards," he said in his address to the participants and guests of a military parade at Khreschatyk Street in Kyiv on August 24.

However, the president noted that "we recognize well the threats that arte becoming more apparent in our region and in our international relations." "Ukraine condemns any attempts to undermine international order and its democratic values. We condemn the acts of forceful intervention and aggression," Yushchenko said.

In this context, he noted that Ukraine had not left indifferent to recent developments in Georgia. "I express deep empathy with all of the affected people of the indivisible Georgian land," he said.

Yushchenko said that Ukraine would do everything to prevent the forceful escalation of conflicts in the region and would do its best to unite the world in a peaceful, legal and fair solution of threats to "frozen conflicts," in contrast to the implementation of forceful scenarios.

The head of state said that the Ukrainian people is the owner of its land, and "nobody will ever make us decide which language we should speak and in which church we should pray, and nobody will ever measure our frontiers, islands and peninsulas."

UKRINFORM