18 November 2014

Obama says Russia is violating pact with the Ukraine – ‘core international principles’ will be upheld

Although not a topic for the board meetings, Russia’s actions in the Ukraine spilled over into the annual G20 meeting held in Australia this year. President Obama came close to calling Russian intervention in the Ukraine an ‘invasion’ stating that they are “very firm on the need to uphold core international principles, and one of those principles is you don’t invade other countries or finance proxies and support them in ways that break up a country that has mechanisms for democratic elections.” (more…)

Source: The New York Times | Obama Says Russia’s Arming of Separatists Breaks Pact With Ukraine