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2008.11.26
PM urges to revive democratic coalition with BYuT, OUPSD, Lytvyn's Bloc within a week

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko calls on President Viktor Yushchenko to resume the democratic coalition in the parliament within this week. "I approach the President to renew the democratic coalition...If the democratic coalition is not resumed till the end of this week, we will be looking for other options and other proposals," she told a news conference Wednesday.

2008.11.24
Premier Tymoshenko guarantees Europe trouble-free gas transit

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko claims the Russia natural gas will be transported to European countries without any troubles. NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine will work as a reliable partner of Russia and the European Union on gas transit to Europe," she said. The Premier also stressed that all current payments of the natural gas consumed are held according to the agreements concluded with Russia

2008.11.22
V. Yushchenko calls Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine as one of world's largest humanitarian catastrophes

The Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine became one of the largest humanitarian catastrophes in the world history by its scales, President Viktor Yushchenko emphasized while speaking at the International Forum "My Nation will Live Forever" that was held at the National Opera and Ballet Theater in connection with the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor. In his speech the President noted that tens of other nations of the former USSR suffered from the Stalin executioners, but annihilation by the famine in Ukraine was of a particularly terrible and large-scale character. "The Famine 1932-1933 was the most large-scale and refers to the world's largest humanitarian catastrophes", V. Yushchenko noted.

2008.11.20
Yushchenko keen on NATO MAP for Ukraine - The Times

President Viktor Yushchenko says Ukraine has done the utmost for NATO foreign ministers to pass a positive decision on the Membership Action Plan for it in early December, despite Moscow's protests and political crisis in this country. He gave warning that expansion of the military alliance was vital to European security in the wake of Russia's war with Georgia, and the only way to secure Ukraine's independence, The Times reported on Thursday.

2008.11.19
Stalin rule, not Russia to blame for Holodomor - MFA

Stalin's rule rather than Russia is guilty of the 1932 - 1933 Great Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine, Ambassador Volodymyr Vasylenko, Ukraine's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, told a news briefing at international press center "Holodomor. 75th Anniversary of Memory" on Wednesday. He emphasized that speculations over Ukraine's alleged accusations against Russia are tactless and do not correspond to fact. "We lay no blame on Russia," the ambassador stressed.

2008.11.17
Yushchenko calling on international community to commemorate Holodomor victims

Addressing Ukrainians the world over, and the whole of the international community on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the 1932 - 1933 Great Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko called on everybody to join in the mourning events and light a candle of memory on November 22. In Yushchenko's words, truth about the Holodomor is becoming known to the broad public in the whole of the world.

2008.11.14
President blames Premier for blocking direct regime of Odesa-Brody oil pipeline "only by political motives"

President Viktor Yushchenko is convinced that the blocking of the direct regime of the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline operation is caused solely by political motives. "Today, the direct regime of the Caspian oil delivery is blocked by political motives alone," the President told Ukrainian reporters in Baku adding that such situation is connected with "political promises and obligations" Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko had undertaken before the September developments in the parliament [BYuT-OUPDS coalition split September 16 - ed.].

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