The French Embassy in Kyiv has rejected rumors that its ambassador in Kyiv was being withdrawn over harsh criticism of the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
A source at the French Embassy told the Kyiv Post that Jacques Faure was set to leave Kyiv after reaching the end of his three-year period as ambassador.
He arrived in Ukraine in August 2008. On Aug. 5, Interfax-Ukraine quoted an unnamed diplomatic source as saying Faure was being recalled after he had "crossed the line of what is regarded as acceptable in Paris." "It’s just not true," the French Embassy source told the Kyiv Post. "Our ambassador should be leaving sooner or later because he has already been in Ukraine for three years, which is now the limit."
Faure had been quoted on Tymoshenko’s party website as saying: "I did not want to comment on the trial, but I want to say that one is getting the impression in France that unfortunately the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko is very far from justice, but very close to politics."
"The ambassador’s position doesn’t contradict the position of the [French foreign] ministry," the embassy source said.
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