USA: Ukraine's new Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk receives a warm welcome from supporters outside the United Nations who chanted anti-Putin slogans and condemned Moscow's takeover of Crimea

Record ID: 214348

  • Title: USA: Ukraine's new Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk receives a warm welcome from supporters outside the United Nations who chanted anti-Putin slogans and condemned Moscow's takeover of Crimea
  • Date: 13th March 2014
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF SUPPORTERS AND YATSENIUK SINGING THE UKRANIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
  • Embargoed: 28th March 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA8MCOFKTD238KQAO6NVTSOMHL3
  • Story Text: Before speaking to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday (March 13) Ukraine's new Prime Minister, Arseny Yatseniuk, received a warm welcome from supporters rallying outside the international body's New York headquarters.
    Dozens of Ukraine supporters launched into Ukraine's national anthem as Yatseniuk reached into the crowd and hugged and shook hands with people.
    The rallyers chanted anti-Russia slogans and urged the United Nations to take action against Moscow lest it backs down from its plans to annex its neighbor's Crimea region.
    Rally organizer Olya Yarychkivska, said the "U.N. should act and we would like them to even send peace keeping forces to Crimea, to Ukraine, because those people in Crimea they are in between. Nobody is helping them. They are completely occupied and are scared of the people walking around with guns. And they are very scared to wake up in Russia on Monday in fact and that will probably what will happen because of the illegal referendum taking place."
    Ibrahim Ozdengogl, held a sign that read Crimea is Ukraine. He is from Simferopol, and says he worries he will not be able to go home because the airport is closed.

    "Crimea is the part of Ukraine. Geographically part of Ukraine. Politically part of Ukraine and Putin is two-faced person. He is trying to get a referendum in Crimea but he is not recognizing a referendum in Kosovo and we can not trust him."
    Others urged for the U.N. to impose sanctions against Russia or even remove it from the Security Council, where it is one of five nations that holds veto power.
    Crimea's separatist authorities said more than 80 percent of the region's people support a break with Ukraine and a union with Russia. A referendum vote is scheduled to take place on Sunday (March 16).
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