Situation with Tymoshenko’s prosecution to be discussed during PACE talks
PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu says the sitaution will be discussed on Thursday to check “that there are no grounds for speaking of a political component being dominant”
“The situation around the events linked with the leader of the All-Ukrainian Association Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, are to be considered during the joint visiting session of the Bureau and Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] in Kyiv”, Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament, Volodymyr Lytvyn announced on Wednesday after a meeting with PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu.
He told journalists that Mr Cavusoglu had said that this would be discussed during the session on Thursday, 26 May. “So that there were no grounds for speaking, as he put it, of a political component, as dominant, in this issue.”.
Reported by Interfax Ukraine