{"id":223500,"date":"2026-01-07T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=223500"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:28:56","slug":"merz-says-no-solution-in-ukraine-through-textbook-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/223500\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz says no solution in Ukraine through textbook diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian and energy crisis, making it crucial to bring the conflict to an end as soon as possible, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said at a press conference in Paris following a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/26099377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The country is on the verge of a humanitarian and energy crisis. Therefore, we are intensifying our already substantial efforts to achieve rapid results. We want a ceasefire,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Merz also stressed that &ldquo;we will not find a solution by relying on a diplomatic textbook.&rdquo; According to him, &ldquo;we can only move closer to the ideal of a just peace.&rdquo; The chancellor added that it is currently impossible to speak about specific timelines for ending hostilities.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian and energy crisis, making it crucial to bring the conflict to an end as soon as possible, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said at a press conference in Paris following a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, TASS reports. &ldquo;The country is on the verge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":223496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223501,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223500\/revisions\/223501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}