European Parliament's ex-President Pat Cox and former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski arrived on Sunday at the clinic in Kharkiv, where former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is undergoing medical treatment.
The European Parliament’s motorcade entered the clinic’s courtyard at
1515 to hear Tymoshenko’s sympathizers chanting: “Freedom to Yulia!” an
Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.
Earlier, Deputy Head of the State Penitentiary Service Oleksandr
Duka, regional penitentiary service chief Yevhen Barash, Kharkiv
Regional Prosecutor Hennadiy Tiurin and Oversight Prosecutor Ihor
Krasnolobov had arrived at the hospital.
The European Parliament’s representatives plan to stay in Ukraine
until May 28 and meet with Ukrainian officials to discuss issues covered
by their mandate.
Cox and Kwasniewski were appointed to monitor Tymoshenko’s trials,
and started working on June 11, 2012 by agreement between Prime Minister
Mykola Azarov and European Parliament President Martin Schultz.
Their mandate was later extended to monitor the trials of ex-Interior
Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and ex-Acting Defense Minister Valeriy
Ivaschenko.
Their report was discussed in Strasbourg on April 18 at a meeting of
the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament and their
mission was extended until September 2013.
