UKRAINE READY TO ADMIT BEREZOVSKY

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KIEV, April 4 (RIA Novosti, Tara Burnos) - Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky can visit Ukraine anytime, representatives of the Ukrainian State Border Service Committee and Security Service told RIA Novosti on Monday.

"Any person having proper documents can enter our country," said Anatoly Samarchenko, spokesman for the State Border Service Committee.

"If Berezovsky's visit is legitimate and Ukrainian law enforcement bodies have nothing against it, he can arrive in Kiev anytime," he noted.

According to Marina Ostapenko, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Security Council, security services have no claims against the exiled Russian businessmen.

"No one, including border guards, has forwarded any relevant papers to us," she said.

Press secretary of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry Inna Kisel does not rule out that "the Ukrainian law enforcement bodies can have an ambiguous approach to the legitimacy of Boris Berezovsky's visit to the republic."

"Ukraine signed the Vienna and Geneva conventions. In compliance with the Vienna convention, Berezovsky is a refugee and we cannot disturb him. According to the Geneva convention, he is on the internationally wanted list and we can arrest him on his arrival in Ukraine," Inna Kisel said.

"The Ukrainian justice is likely to stick to the Vienna convention, which makes British citizen Platon Yelenin a refugee," she added.

Earlier former aide to ex-president Kuchma, people's deputy Alexander Volkov denied the statement of Georgian media that Boris Berezovsky had visited Kiev.

"He told me on the phone that he would come this week," Volkov said.

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