Prime
Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko believes that President of Ukraine
Victor Yushchenko himself provoked RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to
make harsh statements when he began to apply the same tone during his
foreign visits.According to UNIAN, Yulia
Tymoshenko said this at a press conference in the Cabinet of Ministers
on Friday, commenting on Putin’s statement about the problems connected
with the Ukrainian delegation’s visit to Moscow on October 2.
“All
the higher officials at their press conferences, during their public
speeches, and in their political life, must follow ethics of behavior.
But, at the same time, every state leader has a right on freedom of
speech. I also do not like when the President of Ukraine speaking at
the world arena calls the Prime Minister a traitor of national
interests, a hand of Moscow… When the politician himself uses such a
tone, making rough statements at the world arena and offending his
partners or opponents, he opens the way for the same attitude to
himself”, Yulia Tymoshenko said.
At the same time, the Prime
Minister said she regrets that Putin afforded such a statement. “I
believe such things are intolerable”, she said.
As UNIAN reported
earlier, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was delayed flying
to talks in Moscow on Thursday when President Viktor Yushchenko, her
estranged political ally, commandeered her plane, she told reporters.
The reporters said government officials had found a charter aircraft
and she had taken off for Moscow with a small delay. Yushchenko`s press
service said a plane taking him to the western city of Lviv had
developed technical difficulties and returned to Kyiv, where he had
taken a "reserve" plane.
According to Russian mass media, when
RF Prime Minister Putin got to know about this incident, he said: “A
rogue stole her plane”.
