The State Secretary, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin will nominate the presidential envoy in the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich to the post of Russian ambassador in Kiev, said the first vice-speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov.
“Today the State Duma received a letter on the appointment of the Ambassador of Russia in Ukraine. Today, in this regard, a meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, it will take place at 15.30. In accordance with our regulations, it will be held behind closed doors. This session will present the candidate himself and Mikhail Viktorovich Babich and his candidacy will be State Secretary, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory B. Karasin, “- quotes him RIA” Novosti “.
He added that according to regulations of the participants of the meeting will be an opportunity to ask questions to the candidate for the post of ambassador.On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on dismissal from office of Mikhail Zurabov Russian ambassador to Ukraine, and appointed a charge d’affaires of Russia Sergey Toropov Ukraine.
The source said that Zurabov has repeatedly personally asked the President to remove him from that position, especially after the events of the coup in 2014.
In the State Duma said that the new Russian Ambassador to Ukraine will be approved, most likely after the election of the seventh convocation of the State Duma and the completion of the structure of the lower chamber, that is not earlier than October.
As noted by “Kommersant” newspaper, the resignation Zurabov Russian president made it clear that it no longer expects to meet the major contentious issues directly with the Ukrainian leadership and will be more actively involved in this Western mediators.
The paper analyzed in detail LOOK Zurabov resign.
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