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Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
Journalists at this event were treated with particular distrust.
"Colleagues, we are speaking in the presence of the media, I remind you just in case," Andriy Sybiga emphasized to those in the hall before giving them the opportunity to ask questions to speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk.
"Since we are in the presence of the press, I will tell you only one word, 'Taiwan,' and you will understand the rest," taking that into account, the acting foreign minister addressed the head of parliament, Ambassador of Ukraine to China Oleksandr Nechytailo.
But the barbs toward the media did not end there.
"I had to heavily cut my speech, given the press," the newly minted prime minister Serhiy Koretsky later told those present.
Journalists were not allowed into some panels at all, for example part of the session with First Lady Olena Zelenska, or the entire speech by Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal.
- journalist Sofiya Sereda on the attitude toward the media during the congress of Ukrainian ambassadors attended by the president
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