First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin will ask U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft for a short-term single-entry visa to travel to the United States.
“Considering the fact that I don’t have visa now, I will address
Tefft to receive a single-entry visa,” he said on Wednesday at a hotline
conference organized by the Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine newspaper.
Kuzmin stressed that he was invited to a prayer breakfast organized by the U.S. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama.
Asked whether he thinks that the annulment of his U.S. visa could
mean the introduction of sanctions against Ukraine, Kuzmin said: “No, I
don’t think so.”
As reported, Kuzmin, in a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, said
that on October 19, 2012, Tefft informed him about the cancelation of
his five-year U.S. visa, without explaining the reasons for such a
decision.
On December 10, the U.S. ambassador confirmed that Renat Kuzmin’s
U.S. visa was canceled. He added that Kuzmin knows the reason for the
cancellation of his visa. Asked whether such steps by the U.S. side are
related to the recent resolution of the U.S. Congress, he said: “This
cancelation of the visa does not concern the Congress decisions. These
things are not related.”
