Chizhov: harms, was denied entry because it is included in the blacklist

European member Rebecca harms was denied entry into the Russian Federation is not because of the trial Ukrainka Hope Savchenko, and due to the fact that a politician is in response to the black list for the EU, said on the last working day of the week in Brussels, Russian correspondents, Russia's envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov.

" The circumstances of the case are such that, Mrs. Rebecca harms, MEP from Germany, co-Chairman of the faction of the greens in the European Parliament, decided to go to the capital of Russia to participate in the judicial process in the case of an air force Lieutenant Ukraine Hopes Savchenko, accused of espionage and complicity in the actions that led to the death of the Russian correspondents, " said a senior Russian diplomat.

" why Mrs. harms took advantage of this German diplomatic passport, and she was traveling as a private citizen, as far as I am aware, in any case, the mandate from the European Parliament it was not, I leave it on her conscience, " said the Ambassador.

He said that as the holder of a diplomatic passport harms and the truth could enter Russia without a visa, for this reason the Russian visa it is not treated.

" If she'd had another passport, she applied for a visa, and She was denied because she made in English stop list. She closed the entry into Russia. Moreover, It is not closed due to this trip, and without regard to Savchenko, but in the form of the response, which the Russian side is applied after adding to the sanctions list of the European Union of a sufficiently large group of deputies of the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation ", - said Chizhov.

according to him, " humanly can sympathize that She had to spend some time in the airport before she flew back, but not so long it is there and that I was 3 and a half hours."

The head of the Russian diplomatic mission to the EU said emotional response in Brussels on this event from the European external action service and the European Parliament, including its head Martin Schulz, " who saw the closure of the entry into the Russian Federation elected member of the European Parliament totally unacceptable ".

" I have the opportunity to say that the EU's decision on closing the entrance of the group of Russian parliamentarians even more unacceptable, because it was a political action, while the Russian stop-list is purely a response, " said the Russian diplomat.

" some ask, why these lists are not public, not made public. So our practice in this case. If Mrs. harms or its Authorized appealed to me or my staff, we would have advised them to refrain from going, " explained the Russian Ambassador to the EU.


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