Medvedev delays arrival of new RF ambassador to Ukraine
MOSCOW. August 11. KAZINFORM. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sent a message to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in which he informed him that "in the conditions of the anti-Russian course of the Ukrainian leadership I have made a decision to delay the arrival in Ukraine of our new ambassador." "The arrival timeframe will be specified later with taking into account the real development of Russian-Ukrainian relations," the Russian head of state specified, the Kremlin press service reported; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
"For Russia the Ukrainians at all times have been and remain not simply neighbours, but a brotherly nation towards which we will always have the warmest feelings and with which we have common history, culture and religion, are united by the close economic cooperation, strong kinship and human relations," the RF president stressed.
He said that he is certain that the "leadership of Russia and Ukraine must cherish this good neighbourliness, this wealth that is also the common competitive advantage in the globalising world."
Russia hopes that the "new political leadership of Ukraine will be ready to build between our countries such relations that will be indeed correspond to the true aspirations of our nations and the interests of strengthening European security," the Russian president emphasised; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.