{"id":363087,"date":"2022-02-28T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=363087"},"modified":"2022-02-28T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:00:51","slug":"fsm-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-russia-for-brutal-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fsm-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-russia-for-brutal-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"FSM cuts diplomatic ties with Russia for \u2018brutal\u2019 invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PALIKIR, Pohnpei<\/strong>\u2014The Federated States of Micronesia has severed diplomatic relations with the Russia following its \u201cviolent and unjustifiable invasion\u201d of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>FSM conveyed to the Russian Federation its decision to cut diplomatic relations between the two countries last Feb. 25, 2022, saying that FSM will only entertain renewing diplomatic relations \u201cwhen the [Russian Federation] demonstrates actionable commitments to peace, friendship, cooperation, and love in our common humanity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people and government of the FSM stand in solidarity with the people and government of Ukraine, a country that, like ours, embraces democracy and democratic principles, and the rule of law. The FSM, with great sympathy to the people and government of Ukraine, recognizes that Ukraine has been violently and unjustifiably invaded by the Russian Federation,\u201d said FSM president David W. Panuelo in a statement. \u201cTo the people and government of Ukraine: while it may be little comfort, the people and government of the FSM supports your sovereignty, and supports your right to exist, including your right to exist in peace and harmony with your neighbors.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_363088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363088\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/David-W.-Panuelo-PW-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-363088\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panuelo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo the people of the Russian Federation: the FSM continues to extend to you peace, friendship, cooperation, and love in our common humanity, which we extend to all peoples and nations on this shared planet of ours. The people and government of the FSM have no animosity toward the People of the Russian Federation,\u201d Panuelo added. \u201cThe same can only be said of the government of the Russian Federation, however, once they recognize that choosing war instead of peace, violence instead of friendship, betrayal instead of cooperation, and hatred instead of love, is both unsustainable and unjustified. The FSM condemns the Russian Federation\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the unjustified and brutal assault on its people and territory, which our country recognizes as unambiguously villainous and holds in the highest form of contempt. The FSM condemns the government of Russia for their invasion into the sovereign territory of Ukraine, and the hardship placed upon Ukraine\u2019s people. The FSM condemns any actions which threaten global peace and stability and the rules-based international order. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is often described that the preference of any Pacific Island country, to include the FSM, is that we be friends to all, and enemies to none,\u201d Panuelo said. \u201cThis indeed and truly remains the cornerstone of our nation\u2019s foreign policy. But values and convictions must matter more than not at all, and as this Paradise in Our Backyards is founded on our Micronesian ideals of peace, unity, and liberty, so too do we advocate for these ideals to be shared and spread.\u201d <strong>(PR\/SaipanTribune)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALIKIR, Pohnpei\u2014The Federated States of Micronesia has severed diplomatic relations with the Russia following its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":363089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[478,455,772],"class_list":["post-363087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fsm","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}