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“The US is in a rage. They need Edward Snowden for a show trial in order to teach others not to do something like this ever again,” said in an interview to the Voice of Russia a political analyst Serghei Mikheyev.
Edward Snowden has got tired of sitting in
confined space. Fugitive CIA contractor has been in the transit area of
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for two weeks now. Earlier this week, he
applied for political asylum to more than twenty countries. Russia’s
President Vladimir Putin was one of the first to respond positively to the request, but set a condition.
"If
he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he must stop his
activities aimed at inflicting damage to our American partners. He,
judging by everything, does not intend to stop such work, so he has to
choose a country and move there."
Snowden agreed that Russia was not the best option for him, and continued seeking asylum.
Meanwhile,
Moscow hosted the Gas Exporting Countries Forum. Among the participants
were the leaders of Iran, Venezuela and Bolivia, which, definitely,
cannot be blamed for worshipping Washington. And when reporters asked
them to comment on the situation around Snowden, Bolivia’s President Evo
Morales said he was willing to consider Mr Snowden’s request. That
answer almost cost the Bolivian president his life.
When
he flew out of Moscow (and what’s interesting - from Vnukovo airport,
not Sheremetyevo, where Mr Snowden is holed up) all of a sudden France
and Portugal barred him from their airspace, and Spain withdrew a permit
to land in the Canary Islands to refuel.
These
countries authorities feared that the fugitive American spy could
illegally be on board the presidential plane. By the way, the spy who
had exposed to the Europeans how their NATO ally and partner was
secretly spying on EU citizens and intercepting telephone calls of EU
leaders.
And against this background, the European countries barred from their airspace a man who could theoretically help Mr Snowden. Bruno Gollnisch, a member of the European Parliament, said in an interview to the Voice of Russia he was outraged at that.
“Unfortunately,
our government took the position of worshipping the US. The only
reaction to the information about US wiretapping was a request to
postpone free trade talks for two weeks. I’m staggered how dependent on
the United States we are. And I’m even more staggered that France barred
Evo Morales’s aircraft from our airspace. I believe it is a real shame
for my country”.
Vienna permitted President Evo
Morales an emergency landing. The Bolivian president enjoyed Austria’s
hospitality for more than 12 hours, until an Austrian representative
attended the presidential plane and assured Madrid there were no illegal
passengers. Later the European countries had to explain the incident
with the plane.
“This incident is yet another failure for U.S. intelligence,” emphasizes a political analyst Sergei Mikheyev.
“This
is the most serious failure of U.S. intelligence services, of the
entire management system, and of all U.S. foreign policy in general.
They are in a rage. They need Edward Snowden for a show trial in order
to teach others not to to do something like this ever again. But they
fail and start making mistakes. This case is yet another mistake.
Snowden was not on board the plane. Once again they made a blunder in
front of the whole world”, concluded Sergei Mikheyev.
In
solidarity with Evo Morales Latin American countries reacted angrily to
the incident, and demanded the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make
an assessment of the incident.
Meanwhile, Edward Snowden continues to send requests for asylum to different countries.
“When everything is sorted out, nothing will prevent him from leaving Sheremetyevo,” says a lawyer Janis Yuksha.
“He’s
got a passport, but the problem is that it’s invalid. But this is a
document that legitimizes him, i.e. identifies him. We can identify a
person collating photos and other data. I want to say that many
countries give asylum to refugees without any documents at all. And
Snowden has lots of them. But his status is unusual as the US having
annulled his passport cannot annul his citizenship. So he is a citizen
of this country, but he does not want to go back there. Being in the
transit area, he is not actually on any country’s territory.”
At the moment Venezuela and Nicaragua gave their consent to give Edward Snowden asylum.
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