RThere is no talk of resuming the permanent work of American diplomats in Ukraine yet. This time they arrived in Lviv for a while to hold a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
Ned Price
The press secretary of the US State Department, Ned Price, confirmed that some American diplomats have temporarily returned to Lviv in Ukraine, we are not talking about the permanent work of diplomats yet, CNN reports.
According to Price, the deputy head of the mission and embassy staff arrived in Lviv on April 26, they met with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
“This trip was the first step before more regular visits in the near future. We are speeding up preparations for the reopening of the embassy in Kiev,” he said
Price stressed that the US State Department is constantly assessing the security situation in order to resume the work of the American embassy as soon as possible in order to “facilitate the provision of support to the government and people of Ukraine”.
On the eve of the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that American diplomats will gradually return to Ukraine from next week. Moreover, Washington will consider opening an embassy in Kiev. According to Blinken, this can happen “within a couple of weeks”.
The United States decided to move the embassy in Ukraine from Kiev to Lviv before the start of the Russian special operation. Subsequently, the authorities ordered the personnel to move to Poland for security reasons.
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On April 8, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky invited the foreign diplomats to return to the Ukrainian capital, noting that this signaled that Kiev was not a provincial Russian city.
Prior to this, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced that it had returned the embassy staff in Ukraine to Kiev. Latvian Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich said on April 7 that the country’s embassy was also resuming work in Kiev.
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