On April 26, a German delegation visited
Crimea in the framework of a popular diplomacy project entitled ‘Truth about
Crimea to the Citizens of Europe: Reality vs. Myths’.
KIEV, June
10. /TASS/. Ukraine’s state security service SBU has banned an entry of Ukraine
for the former State Secretary of the Defense Ministry, the incumbent member of
the Christian Democratic Union, Willy Wimmer for a trip to Crimea.
The SBU
said it in an answer to a query by the UNN news agency.
"As on
the day of acceptance of the query, the SBU passed a decision to ban entry of
the country’s territory for Willy Wimmer for a period of five years," the
report said.
On April
26, a German delegation visited Crimea in the framework of a popular diplomacy
project entitled ‘Truth about Crimea to the Citizens of Europe: Reality vs.
Myths’.
About
fifteen politicians, reporters, bloggers, and businessmen arrived in Crimea
then. Willy Wimmer was on the delegation along with Andreas Maurer, a regional
deputy in Osnabruck and the chairman of the left-wing caucus (Die Linke) in the
city hall of Quakenbruck, and Yuri Goempel, the chairman of the ethnic-cultural
autonomy of Crimean Germans.
On March
16, 2014, the authorities of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol held a
referendum on the issue of reunification with Russia after an interval of 60
years. More than 80% of registered voters came to the polls and of that number,
96.7% in Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol voted in favor of reunification.
On March
18, 2014, President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty on accession of the Republic
of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to the Russian Federation, and both houses
of Russian parliament ratified it on March 21.
In spite of
more than convincing results of the referendum, Kiev and its outside
supporters, primarily the U.S. and the EU, refuse to recognize the results of
voting.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 10-06-2017
