{"id":44877,"date":"2022-02-16T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44877"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:35:48","slug":"russian-duma-resolution-on-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44877","title":{"rendered":"Russian Duma Resolution on Eastern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>02\/16\/2022 07:35 AM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Duma has stated that it plans to send to President Putin an appeal to recognize the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People\u2019s Republics as \u201cindependent.\u201d To be clear: Kremlin approval of this appeal would amount to the Russian government\u2019s wholesale rejection of its commitments under the Minsk agreements, which outline the process for the full political, social, and economic reintegration of those parts of Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region controlled by Russia-led forces and political proxies since 2014. Enactment of this resolution would further undermine Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity, constitute a gross violation of international law, call into further question Russia\u2019s stated commitment to continue to engage in diplomacy to achieve a peaceful resolution of this crisis, and necessitate a swift and firm response from the United States in full coordination with our Allies and partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/16\/2022 07:35 AM EST &nbsp; Antony&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44878,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions\/44878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}