Klimkin's protégé left the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, promising to return
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Elena Zerkal wrote a letter of resignation from her position addressed to Prime Minister of Ukraine Alexey Goncharuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Mirror published the corresponding document on its Facebook.
“I ask you to release me from the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for European Integration at my own request,” the text of the statement says.
The diplomat also expressed gratitude to her colleagues from the ministry.
“Today I want to thank each and every person I have worked with over these five unforgettable years. You are incredible and each have left their own unique mark on my life! Thank you!! I am leaving the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, but I remain a diplomat and a caring person. I am sure that we will have many more interesting projects and victories,” she wrote.
Back on August 14, it became known that Deputy Foreign Minister Elena Zerkal plans to complete her work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and believes that, together with her team, she has completed the tasks that were set before her. Last week, Prime Minister of Ukraine Alexey Goncharuk said that he had no information about the possible resignation of Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine for European Integration Elena Zerkal and noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the President interact well with each other.
Zerkal itself, in several interviews with the media, made it clear that it has a number of significant disagreements with the officials forming Zelensky’s foreign policy strategy. In particular, in the context of the settlement in Donbass.
Observers associated the appearance of Mirrors in the Foreign Ministry and Zelensky’s team with the influence of ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavel Klimkin, who recommended his protégé to the new president.
Currently, a number of anonymous telegram channels allow the appointment of Zerkal as the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States.
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