Belarus KGK, RF Audit Chamber to endorse plan for '10.

MINSK, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - A joint meeting of the Boards of the
Belarus State Control Committe (BKGK) and the Audit Chamber of the Russian
Federation (ACRF) is to be held here on Tuesday. It will be co-chaired by
the chiefs of the two top financial monitoring agencies of the two
countries, Zenon Lomatya and Sergei Stepashin.
An official at the BKGK has told Itar-Tass, "Those present at the
meeting will consider the opinoin of the ACRF and the BKGK about a report
by the Council of Ministers of the Union State on budget performance in
2008".
Besides, participants in the meeting are planning to approve a 2010
plan for joint activities of the BKGK and the ACRF.
Reports at the meeting are to be made by Raisa Savritskaya BKGK Deputy
Chairperson, and Viktor Kosourov, ACRF auditor.

.Timoshenko not to recognise Yanukovich win legitimacvy.

KIEV, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - Yulia Timoshenko, speaking at a meeting
of the BYUT (Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko) faction here on Monday night, said
she had decided not to recognise Viktor Yanukovich's victory at Ukraine's
presidential elections.
"I shall never recognise the legitimacy of Yanukovich's win in such
kind of elections," she said. Timoshenko assigned her lawyers to get ready
for lodging an appeal in a law-court against the voting results.
Timoshenko suggested such an option as the holding of a third round of
voting. At the faction meeting, Deputy Speaker Nikolai Tomenko and part
of the BYUT faction came out in favour of recognizing Yanukovich's win and
Timoshenko's transition to the opposition. However, a majority of BYUT
members resolved to work for Timoshenko's win.
According to preliminary data of the Central Electoral Commission, on
the strength of the processing of 99.44 percent of the electronic
protocols of the district polling commissions, Viktor Yanukovich polled
48.81 percent of the vote in the election runoff while Yulia Timoshenko
gained 45.61 percent of the vote.

.CIS air def coordinating panel to meet in Vladimir Tue.

VLADIMIR, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - The 32nd session of the Air Defence
Coordinating Committee to the Defence Ministers Council of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) opens here on Tuesday. The
programme of the session is intended for three days.
An officer in the Russian Defence Ministry press service and
information department has told Itar-Tass, "On the basis of the training
of the specialists (teams) of radio-radar troops (RRT) of the Air Force
(AF), demonstration lessons will be organized under the plan of a
methodological training assembly of the AF Commanders of the CIS
countries".
Within the framework of the session, the AF Commander-in- Chief will
present gifts to the trainees of the Center for the training of RRT
specialists, and a ceremony is to be held to lay wreaths at the Eternal
Flame.
The session is to be attended by Vladimir Region Governor Nikolai
Vinogradov, by Russian Defence Ministry officials, and by military
delegations of CIS countries. The united air defence system of the CIS was
brought into being under an agreement among CIS countries. The agreement
had been signed in Almaty in February 1995.

.Timoshenko will only delay president's inauguration--MP.

KIEV, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - An appeal against the outcome of the
presidential elections will be conducive only to a delay of the
inauguration of Ukraine's newly elected president, Nestor Shufrich, a
Member of Parliament from the Party of Regions, said in a live broadcast
of the ICTV channel on Tuesday in comment on the information that Yulia
Timoshenko had decided not to recognize a win by Viktor Yanukovich in the
presidential elections.
"This corresponds to the character of our opponent. We were hoping at
the bottom of our hearts that we would make headway towards Europe.
However, we just remained in Ukraine. There is nothing extraordinary in
this. The law on presidential elections envisions a procedure for
appealing against the summing up of polling results and the announcement
of election results by the Central Electoral Commission. Our opponents may
avail themselves of this legitimate right of theirs," Shufrich pointed out.
At the same time, Shufrich believes that "this is unnecessary". "The
only thing they can do is to delay an inauguration procedure for two to
there weeks," the MP pointed out. "I hope that this is not connected with
a desire to continue to stick to the power-wielding positions as long as
possible so as to hold up certain processes".
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