UN Chief Urges Poroshenko To Continue Dialogue With Russia, Keep Truce -- ITAR-TASS
Ukrainian president called for enlarging the monitoring mission
UNTED NATIONS, September 11. /ITAR-TASS/. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to continue the dialogue with Russia and extend the ceasefire in the east of the country, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Poroshenko briefed Ban on the situation in Ukraine, including its embattled south-eastern regions.
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2 comments:
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How long do you think the ceasefire is going to last?
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Will these sanctions change Putin's plans and either get him to back of Ukraine or just push harder for getting the whole Novorussya (resulting to separatists breaking the ceasefire and beginning to take more parts of Ukraine).
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How devastating will the economic consequences of sanctions affect EU and Russia? Since with these sanctions will Russia manage to survive since it's economy is nearing resection but it also has BRICS and a strong people used to hard times. Also can Russia ban raw materials like nickel and sell it to the east? Also is the car ban going to affect Germany or will they just sell to other countries?
Cease fire violations can be a tactic and a strategy.
See the wars between the Ottoman Turks and the Byzantine Empire.
The Ottomans and Byzantines would conclude a war a peace treaty would be signed.
The Turcopoles would continue raiding. Since they were not an official part of the Turkish military, there was plausible deniability.
What this would mean is the the byzantine border lands would not recover and the Byzantine would continue to weaken until the next war.
I am very leery of any cease fire where there are too many violations. that in itself is casus belli IMO.
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