Cox, Kwasniewski visit Tymoshenko
KHARKIV. Feb 5 (Interfax) - European Parliament ex-head Pat Cox and former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski have arrived at the clinic in Kharkiv, where Ukraine's jailed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is undergoing medical treatment.
Their motorcade entered the hospital's premises at 10:45 a.m. local time to Tymoshenko supporters' cheers and chants: "Free Yulia!" an Interfax correspondent reported.
Reports said earlier that Cox and Kwasniewski started overseeing the trial of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on behalf of the European Parliament on June 11 under an agreement reached between Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and European Parliament President Martin Schultz.
Their mandate was subsequently extended to the trials of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and former acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko. The observers' work was suspended when parliamentary elections began in Ukraine and was resumed when the elections finished.
On February 4, they visited Lutsenko at a prison in the Cernihiv region and met with former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.
