Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vadym Prystaiko has apologized for the mistake made by the Embassy of Ukraine in Iran soon after the crash of PS752 flight of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA).
“As a minister of foreign affairs, I am apologizing for the embassy’s actions. It was their first response in a state of shock which our embassy [employees] experienced having arrived on the site where our people had died, where there were the fragments of the plane, the remains of deceased and so on. The embassy made a slight mistake by issuing the information, which they had received from the Iranian side, without mentioning that it was given by Iran,” he said while speaking at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine during an hour of questions to the government on Jan. 17.
The minister also said that Ukrainian diplomats should have taken a pause and not made a hasty statement.
“The only excuse for the embassy is the fact that it wanted to report about the tragedy as soon as possible,” he said.
