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“FUCK the EU” says Victoria Nuland
The telephone conversation
Transcript
Victoria Nuland's leaked telephone conversation with US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt
Pyatt: I think we’re in play the Klitschko piece is obviously the complicated electron here. Especially the announcement of him as deputy prime minister and you’ve seen my notes on the trouble in the marriage right now so we’re trying to get a read really fast where he is on this stuff. But I think your argument to him which you’ll need to make, I think that’s the next phone call you want to set up is exactly the one you made to (nickname for Yatseniuk). And I’m glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario. And I’m very glad that he said what he said in response.
Pyatt: Yeah. I guess… in terms of him not going into the government let him stay out and do his political homework and stuff i”m just thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tiahnybok and his guys and I’m sure that’s part of what Yanukovych is calculating on all this.
"$5 billion invested in Ukraine
(ie regime change) to date"
Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that’s right. Ok. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step?
Pyatt: No. I mean I think that’s what he proposed but I think just knowing the dynamic that’s been with them where Klitschko has been the top dog, he’s going to take a while to shop up for whatever meetings they’ve got and he’s probably talking to his guys at this point so I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he doesn’t like it.
Pyatt: Ok, will do. Thanks.
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Pyatt: Yeah I saw that.
Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude that the Russians will working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it. And again the fact that this is out there right now, I’m still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych (garbled) that. In the meantime there’s a Party of Regions faction meeting going on right now and I’m sure there’s a lively argument going on in that group at this point. But anyway we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast. So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep… we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.
Pyatt: Ok. Great. Thanks.