Klimkin told how the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry uses Mejlis members in Crimea
Ukraine uses members and supporters of the extremist Mejlis banned in the Russian Federation in Crimea as its unofficial diplomats.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this on the air of the talk show “Right to Power,” PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the minister, Kyiv cannot send consular employees of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to Crimea, even those who work in Moscow, because this would mean recognition of the Russian status of the peninsula.
“We do not have consular services in the occupied territories. What we are doing now, this entire organization is carried out through the Mejlis, in particular, through Akhtem Chiygoz. Representatives (Ministry of Foreign Affairs - aut.) cannot come to the occupied territory, because if we come to the occupied territory, it will be a clear recognition, and this is how Russia will immediately show it all. That’s why we work precisely through the Mejlis and through our friends there,” Klimkin said.
Let us remind you that earlier Mejlis members organized a fundraiser and things for Ukrainian sailors detained by the FSB.
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