New pres must cancel Bandera/Shukhevich decrees-Ukraine Communists.

KIEV, January 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Ukraine's future president must cancel
or suspend the operation of decrees, just issued by the outgoing head of
state, Viktor Yushchenko, to award the title of the Hero of Ukraine to the
leader of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists during World War II,
Stepan Bandera, and commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Roman
Shukhevich, a member of the Ukrainian parliament from the Communist Party,
Alexander Golub, told the media on Friday.

"A future president must cancel these disgraceful degrees regarding
Bandera and Shukhevich, or at least suspend them," he said.

.Ukraine's Communists to support Yanukovich in presidential runoff.

KIEV, January 23 (Itar-Tass) -- The Communist Party of Ukraine has
declared its readiness to support Viktor Yanukovich, the presidential
candidate from the Party of Regions, in the runoff due in two weeks' time.
"At this stage the most important, epoch-making task is that of
keeping away from power a politician (Yulia Timoshenko - Itar-Tass) who
looks critical of the bankrupt predecessor, but on fact would go ahead
with his pro-Western, Russophobic, destructive policies discriminating
against tens of millions of our compatriots in the eastern and southern
regions of Ukraine," the Communist Party said in a statement on Friday.
"Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich declares an alternative
policy, although in doing so he is not always consistent. A number of
ideas of his election platform are consonant with the position of our
party - the Bloc of Left and Center-left Forces," the statement runs.
The second round of Ukraine's presidential election is scheduled for
February 7.

.Ukraine's incumbent to vote against both candidates in runoff.

KIEV, January 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Ukraine's outgoing president, Viktor
Yushchenko, has said that he will not vote for either candidate who have
qualified for the runoff - Viktor Yanukovich or Yulia Timoshenko.
"I will mark the third graph. I support neither candidate. But that is
my personal opinion," Yushchenko said on the Inter television channel on
Friday evening.
In the first round of the elections Yushchenko placed fifth and
dropped out of the race.


.9th round of Geneva talks on SOssetia be yield results - Chochiyev.

TSKHINVAL, January 23 (Itar-Tass) -- There is the hope the 9th round
of the Geneva discussions will yield concrete results, the South Ossetian
president's post-conflict settlement envoy, Boris Chochiyev, said on
Friday at a preliminary meeting with the co-chairmen of the discussions.
He believes that this round will be a difficult one, because "the
farther we move, the more interested we are in concrete results."
Chochiyev said that in the first place he expected the emergence of a
document on the non-use of force.
"The co-chairmen of the discussions must force the Saakashvili regime
into signing a document on the non-use of force against South Ossetia," he
said.
Chochiyev believes that the remaining complicated situation requires
this first and foremost.
"Georgia keeps staging provocations, kidnapping people and building up
the military potential," he said. Chochiyev recalled that at the end of
last year South Ossetia freed Georgian citizens from its custody and hoped
the Georgian authorities would reciprocate. However, not a single person
has been allowed to return to South Ossetia. The South Ossetian
presidential envoy promised to provide evidence Georgia was preparing for
another military adventure.
The 9th round of the Geneva discussions on security in the
Transcaucasus is due on January 28. Taking part in the discussions are
delegates from Russia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Georgia, the United
States, the European Union, the United Nations and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe.

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