{"id":14207,"date":"2014-06-24T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2014-06-24T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:56:21","slug":"4853-simon-smith-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/4853-simon-smith-3","title":{"rendered":"Simon Smith: Constructive engagement with Russia is needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7CqVDVhCVPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Kyiv, 24 June 2014<\/i><\/b> \u2013 \u201cBritish Government very much welcomed President Poroshenko\u2019s announcement of a Peace Plan and a ceasefire\u201d, said Simon Smith, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Great Britain to Ukraine, during a press briefing at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe urge separatists operating in eastern Ukraine to take this opportunity to lay down their arms\u201d, continued Mr. Smith, \u201cand commit themselves to a peaceful resolution of differences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK strongly supports Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and its people\u2019s right to choose their own future. The peace plan set out by President Poroshenko is an important step towards this. It is vital that Russia now supports the plan and takes immediate steps to help end the violence in eastern Ukraine, including using its influence to encourage separatists to disarm, and stopping the illegal flow of weapons across the border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, 23<sup>rd<\/sup> June, European Union Foreign Ministers met the new Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, and discussed the peace plan and the ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN ENGLISH Kyiv, 24 June 2014 \u2013 \u201cBritish Government very much welcomed President Poroshenko\u2019s announcement of a Peace Plan and a ceasefire\u201d, said Simon Smith, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Great Britain to Ukraine, during a press briefing at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center. \u201cWe urge separatists operating in eastern Ukraine to take [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/4853-simon-smith-3\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":14208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[705],"tags":[],"section":[648],"form":[31956],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Simon Smith: Constructive engagement with Russia is needed | UACRISIS.ORG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/eJyuVUH2mb0; 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