{"id":3444,"date":"2014-12-23T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2014-12-23T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:15:13","slug":"ukraine-parliament-votes-to-end-non-aligned-status-in-nato-move-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3444","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Parliament Votes to End Non-Aligned Status in NATO Move – Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine Parliament Votes to End Non-Aligned Status in NATO Move – Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s parliament backed a proposal to cancel the country\u2019s non-aligned status, a decision that\u00a0Russia<\/a>\u00a0calls a dangerous step toward seeking membership of NATO.<\/p>\n

The legislation put forward by President Petro Poroshenko was supported today by 303 of 357 lawmakers in the chamber, hours after the announcement of fresh talks to try to end the conflict with pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. The bill will help Ukraine as it seeks to achieve \u201call criteria of membership\u201d for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin told parliament.<\/p>\n

The vote in Ukraine is \u201ccounter-productive\u201d and will increase confrontation, Russian Foreign Minister\u00a0Sergei Lavrov<\/a>\u00a0told reporters in Moscow today. It will have \u201cextremely negative consequences\u201d and amounts to an \u201capplication to join NATO,\u201d Russian Prime Minister\u00a0Dmitry Medvedev<\/a>\u00a0wrote on Facebook last night.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine Parliament Votes to End Non-Aligned Status in NATO Move – Bloomberg. Ukraine\u2019s parliament backed a proposal to cancel the country\u2019s non-aligned status, a decision that\u00a0Russia\u00a0calls a dangerous step toward seeking membership of NATO. The legislation put forward by President Petro Poroshenko was supported today by 303 of 357 lawmakers in the chamber, hours after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2107,553,694,1292,821,857],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-dmitry-medvedev","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sergei-lavrov","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}