The MPs of the KKE, Thanasis Pafilis, Liana Kanelli and Giorgos Marinos tabled a question to the Foreign Minister, N. Kotzias, in relation to his statements in Washington concerning the assistance the SYRIZA-ANEL government provides in Ukraine.

The text of the question is as follows:

“During his recent visit to the USA, the Greek Foreign Minister, N. Kotzias, after his meeting with the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and in his statements to Greek journalists (Washington, 20.04.2015), stressed the fact that he informed his US counterpart about “the assistance we are providing to Ukraine in this period”.

This statement comes at a time when:

The Ukrainian Parliament approved a law that ahistorically equates communism with fascism and on this basis blocks the activity of communists and the dissemination of ideas.

The local fascists, the so-called Ukrainian Liberation Army, are historically vindicated by another law.

Dmitro Yaros, head of the Nazi organization “Right Sector”, has been appointed as an advisor of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine.

Murders of political opponents of today’s government are happening, as well as the disappearances of journalists, such as the journalist Sergei Dolkov, who was abducted from the offices of the newspaper he publishes, the imprisonment of political opponents, like Alexander Bondarchuk, the editor of the journal “Working Class” and long interrogations and persecutions, such as those against P. Simonenko, the First Secretary of the CC of the CP of Ukraine.

New anti-people measures are being taken in the framework of the Ukrainian government’s commitments to the IMF and EU, on the basis of anti-people memoranda.

The Minister is asked, what kind of assistance is the “leftwing” Greek government providing to the current reactionary government of Ukraine?”

29.04.2015