{"id":146581,"date":"2018-01-16T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=146581"},"modified":"2018-01-16T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:43:08","slug":"russian-us-and-other-ministers-expected-at-un-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/16\/russian-us-and-other-ministers-expected-at-un-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian, US and other ministers expected at UN meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90068\" style=\"width: 1291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15493700_1787414434845300_719568510811726899_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90068\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15493700_1787414434845300_719568510811726899_o.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that China has threatened to impose sanctions on North Korea if it conducts further nuclear tests. (Photo; Rex Tillerson Secretary\/Facebook)\" width=\"1291\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15493700_1787414434845300_719568510811726899_o.jpg 1291w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15493700_1787414434845300_719568510811726899_o-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15493700_1787414434845300_719568510811726899_o-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15493700_1787414434845300_719568510811726899_o-1024x428.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1291px) 100vw, 1291px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MrRexTillerson\/photos\/a.1787414228178654.1073741827.1787413841512026\/1787414434845300\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MrRexTillerson\/photos\/a.1787414228178654.1073741827.1787413841512026\/1787414434845300\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Rex Tillerson Secretary\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two high-level Security Council meetings this week will focus on \u201cconfidence building\u201d measures to deal with weapons of mass destruction where North Korea is expected to be in the spotlight and Afghanistan&#8217;s partnership with Central Asia \u201cas a model to link security and development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Russian Ambassador Petr Iliichev said Monday that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend both meetings. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is also likely to attend, along with ministers from council nations and Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan, the first Central Asian nation to preside over the council, holds the presidency this month and its ambassador, Nursultan Nazarbayev, will preside at Thursday&#8217;s meeting on \u201cconfidence building measures.\u201d Its foreign minister will preside at Friday&#8217;s Afghanistan-Central Asia meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will brief members at both meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two high-level Security Council meetings this week will focus on \u201cconfidence building\u201d measures to deal with weapons of mass destruction &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[478,19465,22645,1509,43412,13441,512,12885,1746],"class_list":["post-146581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-afghanistan","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-kazakhstan","tag-north-korea","tag-petr-iliichev","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-russia","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-united-nations","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}