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Transportation Ministry Director General Gideon Siterman. (David Bachar) Last update - 17:00 12/04/2008 Ukraine arrests Transport Min. DG for not having entrance visa By Zohar Blumenkrantz, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Transportation Ministry  Transportation Ministry Director General Gideon Siterman has been arrested Saturday in Kiev Airport and was refused entry to the Ukraine for failing to have the required visa entrance papers. Haaretz discovered on Saturday that the consuls of both Israel and the Ukraine, as well as the emergency board of Israel's Foreign Ministry offices in Jerusalem have all acted to free the director general from his arrest. However, only after a personal intervention from Ukrainian vice transportation minister, Siterman was released and allowed to leave the premises of the airport. Advertisement "The mistake was ours," Siterman said following his release. "But as soon as they found out who I was, they allowed me to leave the area and I was even escorted to my car." Siterman arrived in Kiev for a series of preparation talks preceding the official visit of Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz that is scheduled for June. Bookmark to del.icio.us   'No good Jewish men' Author David Seidman delves into the dark side of dating, and confesses: 'I am a bad Jew.' Remembrance trail Holocaust memorial steam-drawn train sparks bitter row in Berlin.   1.   Travel on Shabbat 21:59  |  NP 12/04/08

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