President of the United States Barack Obama highly appreciates Ukrainians' fight for freedom.
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko announced this on Twitter, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
«At the 71 UNGA session President Obama praised Ukrainians' fighting for freedom,» he wrote.
In his speech Obama stressed that during the EuroMaidan Ukrainians took to streets with a demand of changes.
«After all, the people of Ukraine did not take to the streets because of some plot imposed from abroad. They took to the streets because their leadership was for sale and they had no recourse. They demanded change because they saw life get better for people in the Baltics and in Poland, societies that were more liberal, and democratic, and open than their own,» reads Obama's Address to the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the White House website.
«If Russia continues to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors, it may be popular at home, it may fuel nationalist fervor for a time, but over time it is also going to diminish its stature and make its borders less secure,» the U.S. President said.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Obama emphasises the importance of fulfillment by militants of the agreements reached in Minsk, Belarus on February 12, 2015.
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