Obama: Russia can't 'run roughshod' over neighbors
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President Barack Obama speaks
at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in Brussels,
Belgium. Obama is on a one day trip to Belgium to shore up commitments
he received from allies in The Hague, Netherlands, to reassure Eastern
Europeans members of NATO that the alliance will stand by them and to
make a larger point about European security a quarter-century after the
fall of the Iron Curtain. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
BRUSSELS
(AP) — President Barack Obama says Russia must not be allowed to "run
roughshod" over its neighbors as it has done in Ukraine.
Obama
says no amount of propaganda and falsehoods coming out of the Russian
government can make right something the world knows is wrong.
The
U.S., its allies in Europe and other countries are refusing to
recognize Russia's recent annexation of Ukraine, denouncing it as an
illegal land grab.
Obama says
Russia is challenging truths that only a few weeks ago seemed
self-evident. He says those truths are that borders cannot be redrawn by
force, international law must be respected and people should be able to
decide their own futures.
Obama commented during a speech while he is in Brussels for meetings on the situation between Russia and Ukraine.
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