Charge
d’affaires to represent Moscow in Kiev — foreign ministry
August 05, 16:45 UTC+3
The ministry stresses no one is talking about breaking diplomatic relations
The ministry stresses no one is talking about breaking diplomatic relations
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KIEV, August 5. /TASS/. The charges d’affaires will
now represent Russia in Kiev and Ukraine and Moscow, head of the Ukrainian
Foreign Ministry’s political department, Alexei Makeyev, said on Friday.
"For more than two years, Ukraine has been
represented in Moscow by a charge d’affaires. Now the situation in the Russian
embassy will be the same. The charge d’affaires has been appointed who is
tasked with maintaining those infrequent contacts," he told Radio Liberty.
Makeyev noted that no one is talking about breaking
diplomatic relations," because there are 3 million Ukrainians in
Russia."
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on
July 28 relieving incumbent ambassador to Ukraine, Mikhail Zurabov, of duties.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on July 29 that
Moscow had asked preliminary consent - agrement - from the Kiev government to
the appointment of Mikhail Babich as the next ambassador.
Kiev is represented in Moscow by charge d’affaires
Ruslan Nimchinsky. Vladimir Yelchenko, Ukraine’s former ambassador to Russia,
was appointed Kiev’s Permanent Representative to the UN in 2015.
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