{"id":32721,"date":"2017-02-21T03:29:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-mourns-russia-ambassador-to-un\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:00:58","slug":"rwanda-mourns-russia-ambassador-to-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-mourns-russia-ambassador-to-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda mourns Russia ambassador to UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo has sent condolences to the bereaved  family of Vitaly Churkin, former Russia ambassador to UN who breathed his last in New York yesterday. } <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeartfelt sympathy to family, friends and country, of long-time #Russia Amb. to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin! RIP, dedicated diplomat!\u201d said Mushikiwabo in a tweet. <\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to Belgium, Olivier Nduhungirehe has also expressed sympathy over the death of late Vitaly Churkin saying that he learnt a lot from him in UN Security Council. <\/p>\n<p>He has died one day before celebrating 65 years.   <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Vitaly Churkin collapsed after a heart attack at work. <\/p>\n<p>CNN has reported that the latter was rushed to Presbyterian Hospital in New York where he died. <\/p>\n<p>Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin was born in Moscow on 21st February 1952. He spoke fluently Russian, French and English. <\/p>\n<p>Churkin served as Russia\u2019s ambassador to Belgium between (1994- 1998) and Canada (1998 -2003). From 2003 to 2006 he was ambassador with special duties in the ministry of foreign affairs before he replaced Andrey Denisov as Russia ambassador to UN on1ST May 2006. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18369 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/e33eaa7e3e880237d557bddde616fb.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo has sent condolences to the bereaved family of Vitaly Churkin, former Russia ambassador to UN who breathed his last in New York yesterday. } \u201cHeartfelt sympathy to family, friends and country, of long-time #Russia Amb. to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin! RIP, dedicated diplomat!\u201d said Mushikiwabo in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32721"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32721"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}