Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense have ruled out the possibility of Ukraine having supplied arms to former Yugoslavia states in 1994, in violation of UN sanctions. These allegations were raised in an interview by the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty with Netherlands Institute for War Documentation member Kees Wibes. In late April another Dutch expert has already informed the British Guardian on this. While Wibes in his interview on Radio Liberty mentioned only Ukraine and Iran, in the British newspaper also appeared the US, Greece, Turkey, and Israel. The article said that Ukraine and Greece supplied arms to Bosnian Serbs, and the US and Turkey to Muslim groups. A well-informed anonymous source admitted to The Day that charges against Ukraine initiated by the Dutch were caused precisely by the scandal in the Netherlands itself, triggered by an investigation into the Netherlands peacemakers’ mission during the massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1994 and were aimed at diverting attention from the reasons for the Srebrenica tragedy. As regards accusing Ukraine of supplying arms to Iran, last Tuesday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that recently Minister Anatoly Zlenko received a letter from the US Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to head of the ministry press service Serhiy Borodenkov, the letter contained “a high appraisal of Ukraine’s efforts to observe sanctions of the UN Security Council against Iraq.”
