Ukrainian
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for European Integration Olena Zerkal says
that the appointment of Russia's Ambassador to Ukraine is no longer on
Ukraine's agenda.
"This
issue has been removed from the agenda," she said on Channel 5 on
Wednesday. This was Ukraine's initiative, she added. She also assured that the
absence of the Russian ambassador would not affect the development of the
bilateral relations.
As
UNIAN reported, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on July
29 that Russia had requested an approval for the appointment of Mikhail Babich,
the presidential representative in Russia's Volga (Privolzhsky) Federal
District as Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. "There is nothing to say on
this issue so far," he said, adding that all necessary diplomatic procedures
had been launched. On July 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin relieved
Mikhail Zurabov of his duties as Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary in Kyiv, the post he occupied since August 5, 2009. Sergei
Toropov was appointed as Russian charge d'affaires to Ukraine.
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