le=”text-align: justify; “>Czech President Vaclav Klaus has cancelled a visit to Ukraine next month over the imprisonment of Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a spokesman said on Monday, Reuters reports.
Klaus has joined German President Joachim Gauck who has decided to cancel participation at a summit of central European presidents in the Black Sea resort of Yalta on May 11-12.
“There are several reasons (for Klaus’s absence) but this is the main one,” the president’s spokesman Radim Ochvat said.
The Czech Republic has been critical of the treatment of Tymoshenko, the main political rival of President Viktor Yanukovich, who is serving a seven-year jail term after her conviction on abuse-of-office charges seen by the European Union as politically motivated.
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