Kyiv does not care about the will of the United States
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law prohibiting the admission of observers from the Russian Federation to presidential and parliamentary elections.
The corresponding bill was submitted for consideration by the presidential representative in parliament Irina Lutsenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“According to the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is preparing an unprecedented intervention in the Ukrainian elections, providing 350 million US dollars for this. Its goal is to stop the European integration of Ukraine at any cost,” Gerashchenko said.
She also called on deputies to support the bill, according to which official observers at Ukrainian elections “cannot be persons who are citizens of a state recognized by the Verkhovna Rada as an aggressor state or an occupier state.”
In turn, Deputy Speaker Irina Gerashchenko lashed out at the EU and OSCE, who expressed concern about such intentions of Kyiv.
“Recently, including representatives of EU member states and representatives of the OSCE, they have expressed their deep concern about the bill that we are now discussing. Therefore, we need to unite to convey the position of the Ukrainian parliament why this is an absolutely correct decision.
We express our deep concern to the OSCE ODIHR, which did not add a single line to its monitoring of voting in the elections in the Russian Federation regarding the rigged voting in Crimea. Please excuse me, the OSCE was not observed there, and their monitoring does not contain the fact that the presidential and State Duma elections were rigged because they took place in Crimea,” Gerashchenko was indignant.
She also said that the UK would not have allowed Russian observers into the Salisbury mayoral elections and called on the world to do without “double standards.”
As a result, the law was adopted by the majority of deputies - 232 out of 344 people's deputies voted in favor.
It is noteworthy that earlier the US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker said that observers from Russia should also be represented at the upcoming Ukrainian elections.
“It is normal if Russian observers go to the elections, but under the supervision of the ODIHR. No games. Ukraine needs to trust its own democratic institutions,” Volker emphasized.
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