UK Prime Minister mustn’t visit Ukraine while Tymoshenko remains imprisoned

  The well-known historian and publicist, Timothy Garton Ash writes that “every EU leader must make up their own mind, but the aim should be to punish the president and not the people”

Yanukovych ‘assured Polish and other European leaders he would change the law or find some other solution to the Tymoshenko issue’. Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

Should European leaders attend football matches in Ukraine, as part of the Euro 2012 championship that kicks off next week? Or should they boycott them in protest at the political imprisonment of opposition leaderYulia Tymoshenko, the mafioso-type corruption poisoning that country, and violent racism among its football fans? Or should they attend, but insist on meeting Tymoshenko or add some other protest gesture?

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see also:
• No EU cash for undemocratic neighbours
• European Parliament: More Stern Words ..
• Stefan Füle: On the Situation in Ukraine, Case of Yulia Tymoshenko
• EU Foreign Ministers decide to wait and see on football boycott
• US: Visit to Tymoshenko
• PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine to visit Yulia Tymoshenko
• Lithuanian President issues strong warning after visit to Tymoshenko
• Lithuanian President plans Tymoshenko Visit
• Poland’s President Komarowski urges changes to Ukrainian law
• More than 9.6 housand Poles have so far signed the Tymoshenko appeal (updated figure)
• Adam Michnik: Free Yulia Tymoshenko