Cardinal Schönborn warns: Peace must not be a financial transaction!

Cardinal Schönborn warns: Peace must not be a financial transaction!

Vienna, AT - Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has sharp criticism of current developments in the USA under President Donald Trump. In his column in the Austrian daily "Today" he warns of the dangers that threaten the Trump administration by unilateral decisions. "What is currently happening in the United States is dangerous," said the emeritus Archbishop. He addresses the dwindling respect for existing contracts based on mutual trust and emphasizes that such agreements must be observed conscientiously. Otherwise there is arbitrariness if the mighty dictate his will, regardless of contractual agreements, as katholisch.de

At the same time, Schönborn expresses concerns about the upcoming raw material agreement between the USA and Ukraine, which is to be signed by President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in Washington on Friday. Schönborn criticizes that peace negotiations should not become a "deal", whereby valuable mineral resources are in the foreground, but there are no essential security guarantees. "It hurts when peace negotiations become a 'deal'," he remarked, adding that peace had to be more than a financial transaction. The rights of the Ukrainian people, such as self -determination, freedom and dignity, would have to be respected to ensure real peace. This agreement that does not offer explicit security guarantees for Ukraine is viewed by Trump in return for military aid, according to the information from vienna.at .