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Ukraine SBU Denies Naming Democratic Leader Burjanadze Persona Non Grata
Ukrainian SBU denied the information that Nino Burjanadze, Georgia’s former parliament speaker and leader of opposition Democratic Movement, has been banned from entering the Ukraine.
The information that Burjanadze had been denied entrance was posted on Tamar Shavladze’s Facebook page, a woman who held a protest rally in front of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting the declaration of Nino Burjanadze as persona non grata a few weeks ago. In reality the Georgian Embassy to Ukraine does not have any information about the issue while Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) has denied the reports.
“Crimea has been forgotten by the international community; this is a fact today that Crimea is part of Russia and Crimea will never become an integral part of Ukraine,” said Burjanadze in an interview with the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Following this statement on August 3 some Georgian and Ukrainian media sources reported that Burjanadze had been declared persona non grata after the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry asked SBU to do so because of Burjanadze’s position over Crimea.
“As of August 3, 2015 no decision has been made by the Security Service of Ukraine to ban leader of Democratic Movement, Nino Burjanadze, from entering Ukraine,” SBU spokesperson Olena Gitlyanska said in a Facebook post on August 3.
Nina Ioseliani
04 August 2015 21:44