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United Nations Security Council action on Crimea referendum blocked

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Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine.

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Ukraine Crisis Hampers EU's Central African Republic Mission

The Ukraine crisis is hampering the European Union's plans to send a peacekeeping force to Central African Republic because nervous eastern European countries want to keep their troops at home rather than send them to Africa, diplomats said on Friday...

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Syria: UN-Arab League envoy says Security Council must push for productive peace talks

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Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for Syria, briefs reporters.

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Together ‘we can pull Ukraine back from the brink’, UN political chief tells Security Council

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Map of Crimea

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