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Ukrainian region demands to strip Bandera of hero title.
DONETSK, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Lawmakers of Ukrainian Zaporozhye regional and city legislatures held a joint session on Thursday to call on the future national leader to cancel the decrees of outgoing President Viktor Yushchenko to award the title of the Hero of Ukraine to nationalists and Nazi henchmen Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich.
The lawmakers said in a statement the decrees "are a disgrace for the
memory of millions of Nazi victims and an actual rehabilitation and
glorification of those who cooperated and fought for Nazi Germany."
"We believe the presidential decrees not only humiliate Ukraine as an
independent and democratic state, but deepen the split of Ukrainian
society and provoke tensions and standoff between regions," lawmakers said
and called to stop the "neo-Nazi policy".
On Friday mass protests against glorification of Bandera and the
SS-Galizien division staffed mostly with Ukrainian nationalists will take
place in Poland - in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw and consular
offices in Krakow, Poznan, Lublin, Gdansk and Wroclaw.
The protests organized by Roman Catholic priests and descendants of
SS-Galizien victims in Poland will go under the slogan "Disgrace and
condemnation to Yushchenko and Bandera".
Polish President Lech Kaczynski estimated over 100 thousand Poles fell
victim to Ukrainian nationalists during ethnic cleansing in Volyn and
Eastern Galicia from 1943 to the end of World War Two.
The SS-Galizien division suppressed the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
.Yushchenko sacks regional governor for Timoshenko support.
KIEV, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Outgoing Ukrainian President Viktor
Yushchenko decreed on Thursday to dismiss Dnepropetrovsk regional Governor
Viktor Bondar who received a no confidence vote from the local legislature
for backing Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Yulia Timoshenko.
The presidential secretariat did not cite official reasons for the
dismissal, however on Wednesday Dnepropetrovsk regional legislature
dominated by opposition Party of Regions voted no confidence to Bondar who
declared his support to Timoshenko, the main rival of opposition leader
Viktor Yanukovich at the runoff election on February 7.
Lawmakers accused him of industrial slump in the region, unemployment
growth, falling living standards, and using his official powers to
campaign for Timoshenko.
Lawmakers of another Ukrainian region of Kharkov also voted no
confidence to regional Governor Arsen Avakov for "administrative pressure
and interference into the election process." Avakov earlier said he would
back Timoshenko in the second round.
However, the regional prosecutor suspended the decision of Kharkov
lawmakers claiming it was passed in violation of acting legislation.
In the first round of the presidential election on January 17
Timoshenko got 10.7 percent in Kharkov region against 50.2 percent of
Yanukovich. In Dnepropetrovsk region she enjoyed 14.8 percent against 41.7
percent of Yanukovich.
On Thursday the official Uryadovy Courier newspaper disclosed the
amounts of election funds of presidential race losers.
Yushchenko, who got only 5.45 percent of votes in the first round,
spent over 55 million hrivnas (some 7 million dollars). He was the fifth
in the race.
The election fund of the "bronze winner" and banker Sergei Tigipko
exceeded 100 million hrivnas (12 million dollars) and his personal fund
was close to 10 million dollars.
Former parliament speaker Arseny Yatsenyuk spent 11.5 million dollars.
He was the fourth in the race with 6.96 percent.
.Russia slams Feith's strategy for northern Kosovo.
MOSCOW, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia slammed the strategy of EU
special representative to Kosovo Peter Feith for Serb-populated northern
part of the province saying it cannot be considered even as a
recommendation for the international presence in Kosovo.
Foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Thursday Feith
was not authorized to design a strategy for northern Kosovo.
"It is to be recalled that the UN Security Council plays the leading
role in the Kosovo process, which has been clearly fixed in Resolution
1244, which is acting in full volume. The UN Security Council has not
empowered the EU special representative to draft and promote practical
solutions for Kosovo," Nesterenko said.
"We do not consider legitimate the institution of the so-called
international civil representative, who works according to the so-called
"Ahtisaari plan", which was not approved by the UN Security Council and
has no legal force. Besides, the mentioned strategy for northern Kosovo
has not been agreed and approved even in the EU framework," he said.
"This is a purely personal initiative, which gives no grounds for
actions and recommendations to the international structures in the
province. At the same time the general trend of the strategy causes major
concern," the spokesman said.
"It looks as if the patrons of Pristina do not abandon hope to bypass
the established international procedures and change the existing
status-quo in the region and impose the concept of independent Kosovo on
local Serbs. Such an approach contains considerable conflict potential. We
call on all interested parties to handle the situation with responsibility
and take the necessary measures to rule out such prospects for
developments," Nesterenko said.
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The lawmakers said in a statement the decrees "are a disgrace for the
memory of millions of Nazi victims and an actual rehabilitation and
glorification of those who cooperated and fought for Nazi Germany."
"We believe the presidential decrees not only humiliate Ukraine as an
independent and democratic state, but deepen the split of Ukrainian
society and provoke tensions and standoff between regions," lawmakers said
and called to stop the "neo-Nazi policy".
On Friday mass protests against glorification of Bandera and the
SS-Galizien division staffed mostly with Ukrainian nationalists will take
place in Poland - in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw and consular
offices in Krakow, Poznan, Lublin, Gdansk and Wroclaw.
The protests organized by Roman Catholic priests and descendants of
SS-Galizien victims in Poland will go under the slogan "Disgrace and
condemnation to Yushchenko and Bandera".
Polish President Lech Kaczynski estimated over 100 thousand Poles fell
victim to Ukrainian nationalists during ethnic cleansing in Volyn and
Eastern Galicia from 1943 to the end of World War Two.
The SS-Galizien division suppressed the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
.Yushchenko sacks regional governor for Timoshenko support.
KIEV, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Outgoing Ukrainian President Viktor
Yushchenko decreed on Thursday to dismiss Dnepropetrovsk regional Governor
Viktor Bondar who received a no confidence vote from the local legislature
for backing Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Yulia Timoshenko.
The presidential secretariat did not cite official reasons for the
dismissal, however on Wednesday Dnepropetrovsk regional legislature
dominated by opposition Party of Regions voted no confidence to Bondar who
declared his support to Timoshenko, the main rival of opposition leader
Viktor Yanukovich at the runoff election on February 7.
Lawmakers accused him of industrial slump in the region, unemployment
growth, falling living standards, and using his official powers to
campaign for Timoshenko.
Lawmakers of another Ukrainian region of Kharkov also voted no
confidence to regional Governor Arsen Avakov for "administrative pressure
and interference into the election process." Avakov earlier said he would
back Timoshenko in the second round.
However, the regional prosecutor suspended the decision of Kharkov
lawmakers claiming it was passed in violation of acting legislation.
In the first round of the presidential election on January 17
Timoshenko got 10.7 percent in Kharkov region against 50.2 percent of
Yanukovich. In Dnepropetrovsk region she enjoyed 14.8 percent against 41.7
percent of Yanukovich.
On Thursday the official Uryadovy Courier newspaper disclosed the
amounts of election funds of presidential race losers.
Yushchenko, who got only 5.45 percent of votes in the first round,
spent over 55 million hrivnas (some 7 million dollars). He was the fifth
in the race.
The election fund of the "bronze winner" and banker Sergei Tigipko
exceeded 100 million hrivnas (12 million dollars) and his personal fund
was close to 10 million dollars.
Former parliament speaker Arseny Yatsenyuk spent 11.5 million dollars.
He was the fourth in the race with 6.96 percent.
.Russia slams Feith's strategy for northern Kosovo.
MOSCOW, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia slammed the strategy of EU
special representative to Kosovo Peter Feith for Serb-populated northern
part of the province saying it cannot be considered even as a
recommendation for the international presence in Kosovo.
Foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Thursday Feith
was not authorized to design a strategy for northern Kosovo.
"It is to be recalled that the UN Security Council plays the leading
role in the Kosovo process, which has been clearly fixed in Resolution
1244, which is acting in full volume. The UN Security Council has not
empowered the EU special representative to draft and promote practical
solutions for Kosovo," Nesterenko said.
"We do not consider legitimate the institution of the so-called
international civil representative, who works according to the so-called
"Ahtisaari plan", which was not approved by the UN Security Council and
has no legal force. Besides, the mentioned strategy for northern Kosovo
has not been agreed and approved even in the EU framework," he said.
"This is a purely personal initiative, which gives no grounds for
actions and recommendations to the international structures in the
province. At the same time the general trend of the strategy causes major
concern," the spokesman said.
"It looks as if the patrons of Pristina do not abandon hope to bypass
the established international procedures and change the existing
status-quo in the region and impose the concept of independent Kosovo on
local Serbs. Such an approach contains considerable conflict potential. We
call on all interested parties to handle the situation with responsibility
and take the necessary measures to rule out such prospects for
developments," Nesterenko said.
-0-nec
