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Romanian PM: Legally Speaking, Romania Is Not Expelling Ukrainian Officials

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc stated for the “Gandul” daily that “legally speaking, we are not talking about an expulsion on the part of Romania,” referring to rumors that certain Ukrainian officials were expelled from the country. He added that the Foreign Ministry will issue a statement soon.
Romanian PM: Legally Speaking, Romania Is Not Expelling Ukrainian Officials
06 mart. 2009, 10:06, English

 

For the first time in years, Ukraine is “involved in a serious espionage scandal” said a Kiev source on Wednesday, adding that Romania expelled the Ukrainian military attaché and declared him “persona non grata”, says Russian news agency Itar-Tass.
 
“We know Romania recommended that Kiev recall the military attaché and his assistant,” said Wednesday the president of the Commission for Security and National Defense with the Ukrainian Parliament, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, quoted by Russian news agency Interfax.
 
Hrytsenko added that the move is unbalanced and hostile, and that the Ukrainian side should answer in kind, specifically “two Romanian military officials must be expelled” from the Ukraine, according to online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.
 
Later, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Yuriy Yekhanurov, stated that Kiev’s answer will come soon and will be ‘appropriate’. He declined to indicate whether the government is considering expelling two Romanian military attachés.
 
So far, neither the Romanian Ministry of External Affairs nor the Romanian Embassy to the Ukraine have made any comment on the espionage scandal, which led, according to a Kiev parliamentary, to the expulsion of two officials from the Ukrainian embassy in Bucharest.