{"id":1894,"date":"2014-03-04T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/04\/kerry-arrives-in-kiev-for-talks-with-interim-leaders\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T17:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:58:39","slug":"kerry-arrives-in-kiev-for-talks-with-interim-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/kerry-arrives-in-kiev-for-talks-with-interim-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry arrives in Kiev for talks with interim leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev Tuesday for talks with Ukraine&#8217;s new interim government, amid an escalating crisis in Crimea.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>His visit came as the United States said it would provide $1 billion to financially-stricken Ukraine as part of an international loan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>With the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea under near complete control by pro-Russian forces, US officials said Moscow could face sanctions within days.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think there will be movement on sanctions very likely later in this week and there is a whole spectrum of sanctions,&#8221; one official travelling with Kerry said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his short stopover, Kerry was expected to meet with Ukraine&#8217;s interim president Oleksandr Turchynov and new Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US officials told journalists travelling with Kerry Washington would provide much-needed financial aid to the new government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a statement Tuesday the government was &#8220;working with Congress and the government of Ukraine to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees, the proceeds of which will be aimed at protecting the most vulnerable Ukrainian households from the impact of the needed economic adjustment.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the same time, the US is moving very quickly to provide technical expertise to help the national bank of Ukraine and the finance ministry address their most pressing challenges,&#8221; an official travelling with Kerry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Tuesday, Russian energy giant Gazprom said it would end Ukraine&#8217;s gas discount from April, but proposed a loan of up to $3 billion to Kiev to cover its debt.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev Tuesday for talks with Ukraine&#8217;s new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,21],"tags":[1900,2375,1516,2373,2374,1287],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ynews3","tag-aid","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-unrest","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}