The Embassy of Belarus in Kiev sent a protest note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in connection with the incident with the stateflag of our country in Dnieper, reports reform.by.
Yesterday, the mayor of the Ukrainian city Boris Filatov said that the state flag of Belarus on the “Alley of the Multiethnic City” before the Martician at the request of citizens was replaced by white-red-white. Ambassador of Belarus in Ukraine Igor Sokol sent a letter to Filatov in which he proposed to meet to bring his arguments. In particular, in the letter, the white-red-white flag was called “Symbols of Collaborators”. The response of Falcon did not receive, so he moved to diplomatic measures.
“Due to the fact that the city hall of Dnepri did not respond to the appeal of the Ambassador of I.Sokola in the fact of the act of vandalism in the city of Dnieper, during which, by decision of the measure of the city of Dnipro B. Filatova, the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus was replaced with another The symbolism, February 10, 2022, the Note of the Embassy was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in which the decisive protest of the Ukrainian side is stated, “the embassy says.
The note stated that the Belarusian side considers the incident as a cynical manifestation of an unfriendly relationship “to the sovereign Belarusian nation and the act of state vandalism on the part of the authorities of Ukraine.” Also, the activities of the mayor’s office in understanding the embassy rudely violate the principle of sovereign equality of states and the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs.
“the Belarusian side requires the return of the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus to the place of its installation, bringing official apologies, conducting the proceedings on the fact of defilement of official symbols of a foreign state, informing about its results and making exhaustive measures to prevent repetition of such facts in the future,” said in the embassy.