Envoy distances Ukraine from Tymoshenko sentencing
Top bureaucrat postpones trip to Ottawa after diplomatic fallout; envoy says judicial system needs improvement. Published October 19, 2011 |
Ukraine's envoy is distancing his government from the controversial ruling to jail his country's former prime minister—a move that drew fire from Prime Minister Stephen Harper—but has admitted the judicial system that sentenced her is flawed.
On Oct. 11 a Ukrainian court handed Yulia Tymoshenko a verdict of seven years in prison for abuse of power over a gas contract she signed with Russia....
