{"id":47703,"date":"2022-02-25T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2022\/02\/25\/president-ramaphosa-mediation-needed-in-russia-ukraine-conflict\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:01:14","slug":"president-ramaphosa-mediation-needed-in-russia-ukraine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2022\/02\/25\/president-ramaphosa-mediation-needed-in-russia-ukraine-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ramaphosa: Mediation needed in Russia-UKraine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>President Ramaphosa: Mediation needed in Russia-UKraine conflict<\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for mediation in order to resolve the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian military invasion of Ukraine is currently unfolding and has left at least 137 Ukranian civilians and military recruits dead and hundreds of others wounded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe war that is going on in the Ukraine\u2026I would say that that conflict is a conflict that should be subjected to mediation, to negotiation [and] to engagement. It is not necessary for people to go to war and have people getting killed, infrastructure that is getting damaged now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt behooves on countries of the world, particularly the United Nations [UN] Security Council, they are the ones who should be getting more and more engaged in a mediation process and one does not see that happening, one does not see that full engagement. It is this that I believe that should happen to bring the hostilities to an end,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Ramaphosa said government is expected to have discussions with Russia and the United States of America in an effort to curb more violence.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the UN Security Council to resolve the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now the parties need to get together so that we stop this conflict that is turning into a violent one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call upon the United Nations Security to do their mediation work. If ever there was a time in the world where the United Nations Security Council needs to come into its own, this the time where they must put their heads together and ensure that this war stops,\u201d President Ramaphosa said. \u2013\u00a0<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ramaphosa: Mediation needed in Russia-UKraine conflict President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for mediation in order to resolve the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. 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