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First the curtsy, now the departure: Putin came to the wedding – now ex-minister Kurz Kneissl is leaving Rosneft

2022-05-23T13:05:10.454Z


First the curtsy, now the departure: Putin came to the wedding – now ex-minister Kurz Kneissl is leaving Rosneft Created: 05/23/2022, 14:53 In May 2019: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (left to right), Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen © Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASSImago Austria's former foreign m


First the curtsy, now the departure: Putin came to the wedding – now ex-minister Kurz Kneissl is leaving Rosneft

Created: 05/23/2022, 14:53

In May 2019: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (left to right), Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen © Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASSImago

Austria's former foreign minister has left the supervisory board of the Russian energy company Rosneft.

Earlier pictures of Putin with her caused a stir.

Moscow - Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is not alone: ​​under great international pressure, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl has resigned from her position on the supervisory board of the Russian state-owned company Rosneft.

The resignation is retroactive to May 20, the oil company said in a press release.

"The company would like to thank Karin Kneissl for the joint work over the past ten months, which was characterized by the difficult pandemic and international situation," it said.

Putin came to the wedding in 2018: Kneissl is now leaving the supervisory board of the Russian state-owned company Rosneft

She informed the company in March that she would not stand for re-election, Kneissl told the AFP news agency on Friday.

The politician was Foreign Minister in Austria from 2017 to 2019.

She invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to her wedding in 2018, when her country held the rotating EU presidency.

Pictures of her waltzing with Putin and curtseying to him went around the world at the time.

She left the Austrian government the following year and joined the Rosneft board of directors in June 2021.

She has stayed until now "to fulfill my obligations from the one-year mandate," she explained.

In its statement, Rosneft also thanked Kneissl for her work during the "complex" international situation and stated that she was counting on future cooperation as an expert.

After Schröder now Kneissl: EU threatened sanctions in view of the Ukraine war

Kneissl's personal website features several interviews with the Russian state news channel RT, the last two days before Russia's war in Ukraine began on February 24.

Before Kneissl, Schröder and the German boss of the Nord Stream 2 operating company, Matthias Warnig, had resigned from their positions on the Rosneft supervisory board.

In connection with Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU had threatened direct sanctions against ex-Western politicians who work for Russian state-owned companies.

(dpa/AFP/cibo)

Source: merkur

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