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US officials pressure on Ukraine in return for meeting with Mr. Trump = diplomatic document

2019-10-04T22:41:35.135Z


[Washington, 4th Reuters]-US senior officials pressured Ukraine to conduct an investigation that could be his personal political interests in return for a summit with President Trump. The House Democratic Party is large


[Washington, 4th Reuters]-US senior officials pressured Ukraine to conduct an investigation that could be his personal political interests in return for a summit with President Trump. It became clear from the diplomatic document released by the House Democratic Party on the 3rd in relation to the impeachment investigation of the president.

Mr. Trump pressured Ukrainian President Zerensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden, who are considered to be the most promising candidates of the opposition Democratic Party, abusing authority to re-elected presidential election next year In response, allegations are being investigated in the House of Representatives. Mr. Hunter has previously served as a director of the private Ukrainian gas company Brisma. [nL3N26O32M]

According to a diplomatic document, Ukrainian envoy, Mr. Kurt Volker, who resigned last week, contacted President Zelensky's adviser in July, and the realization of the US-Ukrainian summit meeting will depend on whether the Ukrainian government will respond to a survey on the 2016 US presidential election I told you that it was hanging.

Mr. Volker said, “The White House contacted me when Zerensky decided on his visit to Washington on the assumption that President Zellensky would convince President Trump to investigate the truth of 2016.”

The truth of 2016 is a conspiracy theory that Russia's involvement in the US presidential election was set up by Ukrainian anti-Russians, but this has already been overturned.

From the subsequent exchange between Mr. Volker and the Ukrainian President's adviser, in addition to the schedule of the summit meeting, the Ukrainian government announced the results of a survey on Brisma and the 16th US presidential election, and at the same time, the policy of "restarting" the relationship between the two countries. It was also revealed that there was active discussion over the launch.

Mr. Volker gave a testimony the House of Representatives the day before as part of the impeachment investigation.

President Trump denies that the US government bargained with Ukraine on the investigation of Mr. Biden on that day. He referred to a diplomatic document by another ambassador who claimed that President Trump had not withheld support for Ukraine to put pressure on Ukraine.

The House Democratic Party requested Vice President Pence on this day to submit a document on the telephone conference between President Trump and President Zerensky, as well as a meeting between him and President Zerensky.

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Source: asahi

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