{"id":46475,"date":"2014-08-15T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9ed1268afa37516dba40bdc5f4fd9675"},"modified":"2014-08-18T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:55:31","slug":"press-release-russian-ambassador-summoned-to-fco-over-reported-military-incursion-into-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46475","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Russian Ambassador summoned to FCO over reported military incursion into Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added translation<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Russian Ambassador Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko was summoned to the Foreign Office this afternoon to meet Acting Permanent Under Secretary Matthew Rycroft.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rycroft asked the Ambassador to account for reports overnight of Russian military vehicles crossing the border into Ukraine.  If true, such an incursion would be an unacceptable violation of international law and of Ukraine\u2019s territorial sovereignty.  Mr Rycroft recalled the British Government\u2019s readiness to support all efforts in bringing an end to the crisis in Ukraine, and its welcome for any Russian efforts to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today at the meeting of European Foreign Ministers in Brussels, the Foreign Secretary called for Russia to withdraw any military personnel in eastern Ukraine and to stop its support for the armed separatists there. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador asked to account for reports overnight of Russian military vehicles crossing the border into Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46494,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46475\/revisions\/46494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}