President Putin, well put in the news

President Putin, well put in the news.

The Russian President has been featuring the news for quite some time now. The chat for this week is his possible presence in the G20 meeting. The Russian President will attend the summit to be held in Brisbane, Australia, later in November. It is anticipated that there will be some exciting conversation in the meeting hall regarding Russian offense on the Ukrainian border and there alleged involvement in shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17.

Australia on other hand has faced calls to ban Mr. Putin from the G20 summit, in consideration of shooting down of MH17 on 17th July 2014, alongside Ukrainian border. The plane boarded 38 Australian passengers who were amongst the unfortunate 298 victims of the incident. Western countries and Ukraine have put the blame on Russian rebels of the region who used Russia made missiles to shoot down the plane. However, these allegations have been denied by the Russian President.

Australians find themselves uncomfortable by the thought of welcoming Vladimir Putin who they believe is their culprit and is creating hurdles in fair investigation of how the event happened. He now has a reputation of murderer and bully. “I happen to think that when you deal with an international bully the way you do it isn’t by laying out the red carpet, so no, I don’t think he’s welcome, I don’t think most Australians want him here.” were the words of Labor leader in Australia.

Despite public sentiment, Australia’s federal government has a little say in the matter. In order to ban or uninvited any member, the hosts must have sufficient support from other members of the G20 union, which is surely not the case.

Paul Guard, whose parents were amongst the unfortunate victims of the MH-17 shoot down, has a different narrative. “It wouldn’t achieve much by uninviting him because dialogue is the way forward and I hope the G20 might be a good platform on which to strongly voice our disapproval of his government’s policy and approach to Ukraine” With a strong sentiment building up against the Russian leader and his army’s involvement in activities alongside Ukrainian border considered unnecessary. Mr. Putin has ordered the Russian troops to withdraw and move to their permanent bases. The pull out was in lieu of the meeting between Putin and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, on Friday in Milan. Around 17,600 men have been called back from training exercises in Rostov region.

Ukrainian’s have been fighting the pro-Russia rebels, allegedly supported by the Russian army, in the Donetsk and Luhansk region since March earlier this year. The conflict however has killed over 3500 people. A cease fire agreement came into consideration in September, but the Fighting still continues.

Although the Russian President might not be as welcomed as other G20 leaders visiting Australia. But still there are a lot of good expectations from Mr. Putin in terms of prevailing peace in the region and conducting independent inspection of the tragic shooting down of the Malaysian Airline.

Link : http://www.researchomatic.com/Foreign-Relations-Of-Russia-During-Vladimir-Putin-Presidency-122099.html