Kyiv’s authorities have approved the visit of a Belgian delegation that included Hadja Lahbib, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium, which was not approved until now because of her illegal trip to the occupied Crimea as a journalist, for which she eventually apologised.
Source: European Pravda; Lahbib’s Twitter; Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Hadja Lahbib‘s Twitter posts says that she arrived in Kyiv with Alexander De Croo, the Prime Minister of Belgium. Together with him, she attended a meeting with Zelenskyy, had meetings with public activists, and on Sunday, she visited Borodianka.
During the visit on Saturday, 26 November, De Croo announced that Belgium would contribute €10,000,000 to the Ukrainian initiative of supplying grain to the poorest countries in Asia and Africa. On the same day, it became known that Belgium planned to provide mobile laboratories and unmanned surface vehicles to Ukraine.
As it is known, after Hadja Lahbib’s appointment to the post, political opponents reminded her of a trip to the occupied Crimea, where she went as a journalist. When the situation became public, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine declared that they “would not turn a blind eye” on it. European Pravda highlighted this diplomatic scandal in detail in the article The Dodon Effect. How the head of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuses to apologise for her visit to the occupied Crimea.
Already as Foreign Minister, Lahbib wrote a letter to her Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba, in which she expressed her support for Ukraine, emphasising the fact that Crimea and Donbas belong to Ukraine.
Later, at an informal meeting of European Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Prague, Lahbib met with Kuleba and explained her visit to the occupied Crimea, acknowledging the violation when crossing the border. For the first time after that, the possibility of Hadja Lahbib’s visit to Kyiv was not mentioned, although she previously expressed she would like to do so.
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