The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is in dialogue with the Belgian side regarding the trip of Belgian Foreign Minister Hadji Labib to the occupied Crimea in 2021. This was announced by the press secretary of the Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko.
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He recalled that Kyiv considers it illegal to enter Crimea from Russia, occupied in 2014.. Earlier it was reported that Labib, who has headed the Belgian Foreign Ministry since July 15, visited Crimea in the summer of 2021.. She participated in the theater festival in Sevastopol in July 2021. Labib also published photos from the palace in the Crimean Livadia and the house-museum of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov in Yalta..
As reported, the Belgian embassy resumed its work in Kyiv in July.