Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of the convicted former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has appealed to international organizations asking them to help Ukraine in holding new fair parliamentary elections, and asked his wife to stop her hunger strike
“I appeal to a wife and mother, the leader of the opposition, a brave
fighter, a patriot of Ukraine – Yulia Tymoshenko – with a request that
she stop her hunger strike. Your life no longer belongs to you, your
life belongs to Ukraine, it belongs to eleven million Ukrainians who at
the presidential elections saw you as the president of Ukraine and see
you as the head of our country in the near future. Through your actions
you once again confirmed that even in the dungeons of the current
government, one can fight for freedom and be stronger than the regime
that fears you. But your fasting and its possible consequences may be
playing into their hands,” the press service of the Batkivschyna
All-Ukrainian Union quoted Tymoshenko’s husband, who received political
asylum in the Czech Republic, on Thursday.
Oleksandr Tymoshenko also urged the international organizations of
Ukrainians in the world, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe, national parliaments of the EU
countries to help Ukraine in its struggle for democracy and its European
choice, in its struggle for the respect for human rights, for the new
fair and democratic elections involving Tymoshenko and the imprisoned
former interior minister, Yuriy Lutsenko.
“We’re asking the international community not to support the dictator
[Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych, not to pretend that he is
holding reforms, but to help us launch a public international
anti-corruption inquiry into the outright shadowy financial activities
of Yanukovych’s family and his entourage, to stop all of them, and bring
Ukraine into the European family and to European values,” Tymoshenko’s
husband said.
