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Kharkiv – EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira has not arrived for a meeting with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is undergoing treatment at Ukrzaliznytsia's Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv, the press office of the State Penitentiary Service has reported. 

“Despite the fact that yesterday the administration of Kachanivska Penal Colony No. 54 granted the permission for Tymoshenko to meet with Teixeira, he has not arrived for the meeting,” reads the statement.


The EU Delegation to Ukraine told Interfax-Ukraine that the date of the ambassador’s visit to Tymoshenko had not been agreed with it.


“We learned last evening from the Web site of the penitentiary service that permission was granted for the ambassador to visit Tymoshenko. We were not informed about any date of the visit,” the delegation said.


Interfax-Ukraine learned that Teixeira is currently outside Ukraine.