The State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine has said that it has not received any requests from foreign embassies for permission to visit former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
“The penitentiary service had not received any official applications
from the Foreign Ministry or embassies as of 1430 on Tuesday,” Assistant
Head of the State Penitentiary Service Ihor Andrushko told
Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.
The Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, in turn, told the
news agency that Ambassador Jan Tombinski had sent a request for
permission to meet with Tymoshenko.
“The ambassador has submitted an application, in which he asked for
the consent to meet with the former prime minister,” the delegation’s
press service said, noting that it hopes the application will be
positively considered.
The U.S. embassy has not confirmed reports whether Ambassador John Tefft submitted a request for a meeting with Tymoshenko.
As reported, Deputy Head of the Batkivschyna Party, MP Hryhoriy
Nemyria said earlier that Tefft and Tombinski had demanded permission to
see Tymoshenko.
“We know that the EU and the U.S. ambassadors have addressed the
Ukrainian authorities with a demand for immediate and unhampered access
to Yulia Tymoshenko,” he said.
