Le Pen has contradicted the EU on the issue, the SBU chief said Tuesday, as quoted by the local media. He added that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry would need to assess the statements made by Le Pen.
#Ukraine security services have asked foreign ministry to bar #MarineLePen from country. (Ukrinform) (in Russian) https://t.co/zgvTg42f2I
— Douglas Herbert (@dougf24) January 4, 2017
“If we were talking about an official activist, we would have called the ambassador or sent a note of protest. As for the SBU, we reserve the right to act in accordance with the conclusions to which we will come. This may be a ban on entry into the territory of our state to that person, other restrictions that may apply to foreigners,” Oleksandr Tkachuk told the UNIAN news agency, commenting on Le Pen’s remarks.
Russian forces protected the Black Sea peninsula in February 2014 from a coup being staged in Kiev and a month later organized a referendum in which more than 95 percent of Crimean voters backed joining Russia.
In an interview with French television channel BFM TV, the leader of the National Front party sided with the Kremlin. “I see no grounds whatsoever to question this referendum,” Le Pen has said, adding that she views Crimea as a part of Russia.
“I absolutely disagree that it was an illegal annexation: a referendum was held and residents of Crimea chose to rejoin Russia,” said Le Pen, who is running as a strong favourite in the April 17 presidential election.
The Obama administration and European Union branded the referendum as “illegal”, while the British Government called the referendum “farcical” and “illegitimate”. Russia was subsequently hit with sanctions and hysterical criticism by the EU and UN.
Le Pen blamed the EU for the crisis in Ukraine after sanctions were imposed against Russia. “The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union’s fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia,” Le Pen told Le Monde daily in an interview.
Le Pen has been a long-standing critic of Europe’s foreign policy and does not see how Ukraine could join the bloc. “The European Union’s diplomacy is a catastrophe,” Le Pen told RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze in an exclusive interview in June 2014.
“The EU speaks out on foreign affairs either to create problems, or to make them worse.”
“Ukraine’s entry into the European Union; no need to tell fairy tales: Ukraine absolutely does not have the economic level to join the EU,” Le Pen told RT.
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The Kiev regaim supports evil in other places too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvkMcZAoVO0
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