17:50 08.07.2013

Azarov: if doctors find reasons for Tymoshenko's treatment abroad, matter will be settled within law

2 min read

Ukrainian Premier Mykola Azarov has said that if the doctors, who treat Ukraine's ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, find out the serious reasons for her treatment abroad, this issue will be settled within the current law.

"If the doctors, including those from the Charite clinic, who take care of her, find serious reasons for treating Tymoshenko abroad, the issue will be considered according to the present Ukraine's law," he said in the interview with a 'Le Nouvel Economiste' French magazine.

As Azarov repeated, Ukraine's political and business relations with the EU shouldn’t depend on the destiny of one person.

Moreover, Azarov said that the popularity of Tymoshenko in Ukraine significantly fell. "All the polls show that Tymoshenko's popularity fell. What one should wait for? Just for the gas contract, which she signed in 2009, we overpay $7 billion per year. When a Ukrainian citizen gets the accounts for the gas consumption, he knows due to whom he pays such extremely high price," the premier added.

As reported, on October 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office when signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009. She has been serving her prison term in the Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv since the end of December 2011.

On May 9, Tymoshenko was moved from the prison to Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv. The procedures for the ex-premier's treatment in hospital have been selected by German doctors from the Charite Clinic.

Last week CEO of Berlin-based Charite Clinic Karl Max Einhaupl has confirmed that the health of former prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has deteriorated sharply, and assured of their willingness to take her for the necessary treatment in Germany. "She is still not willing to have surgery in Ukraine. Naturally, our proposal to treat her here in Berlin still stands. Should President Viktor Yanukovych be ready for such a gesture, this would only enhance respect for him," Einhaupl told Kommersant-Ukraine.

Recently MP Serhiy Mischenko submitted to the Rada a bill that permits convicts to undergo treatment abroad, but Batkivschyna called it "provocation".

The political experts said there is a high probability that Ukraine will permit Tymoshenko to undergo treatment in Germany, and in such way to fulfill the most important condition for the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU.

AD
AD
AD
AD
AD