{"id":193626,"date":"2022-10-01T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=193626"},"modified":"2022-10-01T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:19:38","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflict-pres-putin-calls-on-ukraine-to-agree-to-ceasefire-and-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=193626","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict: Pres Putin calls on Ukraine to agree to ceasefire and negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/523\/52322612.jpg\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin, Russian President\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Vladimir Putin, Russian President<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">MOSCOW, Oct 1 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; Ukraine\u2019s government needs to agree to a ceasefire and return to the negotiating table, says Russian President Vladimir Putin.<br><br>\u201cWe are ready for this,\u201d Putin said as he declared the parts of Ukraine occupied by Moscow\u2019s forces to be part of Russia. Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions are to be incorporated through \u201ctreaties\u201d signed with the states, which Moscow has recognised as independent.<br><br>Putin stressed that the people in these regions are now \u201cour citizens forever.\u201d He stressed that there would be no negotiations with Ukraine concerning the annexed territories, citing referendums conducted in the areas.<br><br>Putin invoked the \u201cright of self-determination\u201d of the people living in the four areas, despite reports of Ukrainian residents in the occupied territories having been forced to vote. &#8212; NNN-GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin, Russian President MOSCOW, Oct 1 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; Ukraine\u2019s government needs to agree to a ceasefire and return to the negotiating table, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. \u201cWe are ready for this,\u201d Putin said as he declared the parts of Ukraine occupied by Moscow\u2019s forces to be part of Russia. Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193628,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193626\/revisions\/193628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}