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Regions Party to try to trigger dismissal of Tymoshenko's government again this fall, MP says
24 July 2008, 23:00
Kyiv, July 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) - According to MP Vadym Kolesnychenko of the Regions Party faction, the party will again try to trigger dismissal of the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko this fall. "We will certainly raise this question again this fall," he said at a press conference on Thursday. The Communist Party of Ukraine and the Bloc of Lytvyn will share responsibility for the performance of the government with the coalition if they do not vote for the dismissal of the Cabinet of Ministers, he said.
PGO says MP Zhvania might have been involved in poisoning of Yuschenko
23 July 2008, 19:30
Kyiv, July 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Prosecutor General's Office does not rule out that MP Davyd Zhvania from the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc might have been involved in the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko in 2004. An investigator from the office's main investigation department, Oleksiy Donsky, told this to journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday. "My experience of investigator helps suggest two versions - he [Zhvania] is either afraid of something or somebody in connection with the investigation into this case, or he might be involved in this crime," he said. Donsky said that "Zhvania arrived at the main investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office for questioning this morning and left the building two minutes later." He said that Zhvania had refused to give testimony and "left the questioning session, abusing the status of a people's deputy." Zhvania, in turn, told journalists that he had refused to give testimony, as he had not been allowed to meet with the head of the investigation group in the case of Yuschenko's poisoning, Halyna Klymovych.
New agreement, possibly association agreement, with Ukraine will give no clear prospect of Ukraine's membership of EU, commissioner says
22 July 2008, 20:23
Brussels, July 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Although the new agreement with Ukraine is most likely to be entitled an "association agreement," it won't envisage any clear prospect of Ukraine's membership of the European Union, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in Brussels on Tuesday following a meeting of the Council of the EU. "It was important to arrive at a shared decision concerning the package... on the association agreement and concerning our deeper commitments on the enhanced agreement, but it [the agreement] won't envisage any future development of [the EU's] relations with Ukraine," she said. "We feel that Ukraine has to do a lot of to stabilize its domestic politics," she said. She pointed to serious conflicts between President Viktor Yuschenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
New agreement between Ukraine and EU might be viewed as agreement on Ukraine's associated membership, Merkel says
21 July 2008, 16:25
Kyiv, July 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Germany hopes it will be possible to regard the new, enhanced agreement between Ukraine and the European Union as an agreement on associated membership, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a joint press conference with President Viktor Yuschenko in Kyiv on Monday. "A EU-Ukraine meeting will take place in France this fall under the chairmanship of France. And we, the Federative Republic of Germany, may imagine that [a new agreement with Ukraine] means not only an agreement about enhanced cooperation, but also as an agreement on associated membership," she said. "This is not a status, but a qualification of the new agreement… One should not take this as terms for joining the EU," she said.
Yuschenko takes part in unveiling ceremony of Trident sculpture on Mount Hoverla
18 July 2008, 16:43
President Viktor Yuschenko on July 18 took part in the unveiling of the Trident sculpture and the burying of a capsule with soil from Ukrainian battlefields on Mount Hoverla, the highest peak of Ukraine, the press service of the Family, Youth, and Sport Ministry reported on Friday. A large Ukrainian flag of 6x4 meters was flown there, and priests took part in the ceremonies too. The law protects the symbols as monuments of state importance. Participating in the ceremony were Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko, the heads of state agencies, heads of regional state administrations, and the leaders of political parties and NGOs. About 1,000 climbed the mountain to attend the ceremony, including 100 parentless children. This was the second accent to the peak by Yuschenko as the president of Ukraine.
Ukrainian presidential secretariat head accuses Tymoshenko of trying to manage energy sector
17 July 2008, 14:29
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Viktor Baloha has said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is once again trying to settle the country's energy issues at her own discretion. He was commenting on a written instruction from the premier to Ukrtransnafta Board Chairman Ihor Kyriushyn and his deputies, banning them from signing documents and participating in talks and meetings on oil pumping through Odesa-Brody pipeline until the government passes a respective decision, the presidential press service reported on Thursday. Baloha said the premier was interfering in the issues within the president's competence, in particular those on the provision of national security, which includes the energy security of the state. "Every schoolboy knows that the premier has long paid special attention to the energy sector.
Ukraine could export $4 b worth of grain in 2008 - presidential secretariat official
16 July 2008, 16:57
Due to a rich grain harvest in 2008, Ukraine could export 15 million tonnes of grain and earn $4 billion on this, a high-ranking official from the Ukrainian presidential secretariat said. Ukraine plans to harvest 40 million tonnes of grain this year. Considering that its reserves amount to another 5.5 million tonnes, it can put a total of about 46 million tonnes into trade turnover, Deputy Presidential Secretariat Chief Andriy Honcharuk said at a news briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday. "At least 15 million tonnes could be exported. With the current price of wheat at $260 per tonne and corn at $280 per tonne, this could amount to roughly $4 billion," Honcharuk said. The rich 2008 harvest is "a perfect opportunity for Ukrainian exporters and the Ukrainian state to earn extra money," he said.
Ukrainian grain stocks exceed last year's by 28% on July 1
16 July 2008, 17:59
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Russians should organize celebration of Russian navy day in Sevastopol according to Ukrainian law, says foreign ministry
15 July 2008, 17:28
Kyiv, July 15 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Russia should follow the procedure set by Ukrainian law if it wants to hold Russian Navy Day in Sevastopol on July 27, Head of the Foreign Ministry's press service Vasyl Kyrylych told the press at a briefing on Tuesday. According to him, there were reports last week that Russia intended to celebrate Russian Navy Day in Sevastopol. "This should be agreed with the appropriate Ukrainian organs," Kyrylych said.
Yuschenko says he knows who ordered his poisoning
14 July 2008, 17:50
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has said he knows who ordered his poisoning, however, he refused to name the organizers of his poisoning until the end of the investigation into the case. He was speaking in an interview with the Austrian Der Standard newspaper. The interview was posted on the official Web site of the Ukrainian president. "I know who they [the organizers of the poisoning] are," he said. However, he refused to name them until the end of the investigation into the case. "The people who were linked to the organizers of the dinner during which I was poisoned, should be brought up for pre-trial investigation. These three people are staying in Russia and currently have Russian citizenship," Yuschenko said. He said Ukraine had filed official requests on the extradition of these people.
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