Statement of the EU Delegation to Ukraine on the personal attack of a FEMEN activist against MEP Elmar Brok

March 24, 2013.

    Yesterday evening in Brussels, at the European Parliament, Femen Activist Alexandra Shevchenko made a topless attack against the European deputy, Chairman of the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok. In relation with this action the EU delegation to Ukraine strongly condemns the unprecedented personal attack on MEP Brok and would make the following statement. All the allegations against Mr Brok are false. In reality during his one-day visit to Kyiv on 20 December, MEP Elmar Brok had an intensive agenda which included a number of meetings with Ukrainian authorities namely with Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov and Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Rybak as well as meetings with the representatives of the opposition political parties. During his meetings, Mr Brok was assisted by the Head and staff of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine who accompanied him all the time from the moment of his arrival from Moscow till his departure in the evening of the same day, 20 December, to Tbilisi.