Rada committee says Ukraine should appoint ambassadors to NATO, number of states as soon as possible
The Verkhovna Rada committee on foreign affairs has expressed its concern that with not much time remaining before the NATO summit in Warsaw, Ukraine has no ambassador to NATO.
"I am also concerned because there will be the NATO summit in Warsaw in July, and we have no ambassador in our mission to NATO in Brussels and this is a catastrophe," Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian parliament Hanna Hopko said in Kyiv last week.
Hopko recalled that a number of states, including Georgia, Belarus, and Ukraine do not have such ambassadors. According to her, she has repeatedly asked both Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and President Petro Poroshenko to make such appointment as quickly as possible, but the problem has not been addressed.
"I have talked twice with the president alone about the appointment of the ambassadors [this year], let alone, with Mr. Klimkin. But it seems to me, he [Klimkin] cannot resolve this matter as it is settled at the level of the presidential administration. And this is one of our problems - we have a minister, but the personnel issues are solved in the presidential administration," the MP stressed.
Hopko also said that the committee on foreign affairs "has sent three letters addressed to the president" regarding this matter, but in response received only run-around replies from the presidential administration head Borys Lozhkin.