{"id":1548,"date":"2015-03-20T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:43:17","slug":"russia-drafts-un-resolution-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-drafts-un-resolution-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia drafts UN resolution on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Moscow has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution which calls on the Kiev government to immediately start negotiations with pro-Russia leaders in eastern Ukraine on holding local elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian resolution, which was submitted in the Security Council on Thursday, urges\u00a0Ukrainian authorities to \u201cimmediately start consultations with the representatives\u201d and local leaders in the troubled east.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposed text cites a paragraph from the recent peace deal between Kiev and pro-Russia forces, which \u201cprovides for discussion and agreement on questions related to local elections in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution comes days after Ukraine\u2019s parliament ratified two bills granting autonomy to its ethnic Russian population in the eastern regions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ukrainian legislation has drawn sharp criticism from Russian authorities, who argue that it is not in line with the peace agreement reached between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia forces\u00a0in Minsk, Belarus, on February 12 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior officials in Moscow have strongly objected to Kiev\u2019s requirement that before winning autonomy, the eastern regions must hold local elections under Ukrainian law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Ukrainian parliament\u2019s move \u201cgrossly violates\u201d the peace accord, also known as Minsk II.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cKiev is looking to replace practically all elected officials with someone else,\u201d the top Russian diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u00a0mainly Russian-speaking regions in eastern Ukraine\u00a0have been hit by deadly clashes between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations in April last year to crush pro-Russia protests there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May 2014, the situation in the two flashpoint regions started to worsen as residents overwhelmingly voted for independence from Ukraine in referendums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 6,000 people have died in the conflict, the UN says. Around 1.5 million people have also been forced from their homes over the past months of the turmoil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JR\/MKA\/HMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution which calls on the Kiev government to immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[75,24,20,22,17,149],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-eu","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-un","tag-unsc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Poroshenko-Putin-shake-hands.jpg?fit=670%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-oY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}