{"id":92320,"date":"2018-05-25T10:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T10:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=297c57744eadfaf310d6b08fc219aadb"},"modified":"2018-05-25T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T10:40:59","slug":"press-release-pm-call-with-president-poroshenko-24-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=92320","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM call with President Poroshenko: 24 May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street Spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday evening, the Prime Minister held a telephone call with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two leaders discussed the Minsk process and the situation in eastern Ukraine and the need to tackle instability there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister reiterated the UK\u2019s strong support for Ukraine, including our commitment to maintaining pressure on Russia through EU sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe went on to discuss how the international response to the poisoning incident in Salisbury had shown that coordinated action by a broad range of allies is the most effective way to respond to Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also discussed the announcement by the Joint Investigation Team that the missile which brought down flight MH17 belonged to the Russian army \u2013 pointing out that such actions fit into a well-established pattern of Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister offered the UK\u2019s full support to the investigation team which is looking into the incident, which saw 10 UK citizens lose their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister and President discussed the importance of Ukraine\u2019s reform agenda, and looked forward to the forthcoming Ukraine reform conference in Copenhagen and the opportunity to demonstrate the progress made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister also thanked President Poroshenko for the strong cooperation between Ukraine and the UK ahead of the Champions League Final on Saturday, where 30,000 British fans are expected to travel to Kyiv to see Liverpool take on Real Madrid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to President Petro Poroshenko of 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\/92320"}],"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=92320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}