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      | “Ukraine in Focus”, February 18 - 24 2008The Democratic Initiatives Foundation keeps track of political events in Ukraine for monitoring pre-election promises of leading political forces having entered the Parliament as a result of the September 30, 2007 pre-term elections to the Verkhovna Rada. The survey is conducted with the framework of the project “Where do political leaders lead us to?” February 18
The opposition forces keep on blocking the Rada’s. Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk refused to conduct the Conciliation Council meeting. Hestatedthat the parliament will resume its work only when the Party of Regions unblocks the Rada. Arseniy Yatseniuk also urged MPs to unblock the parliament as he does not exclude dissolution of the Parliament within 30 days starting from February 13. Ukraine started
negotiations for forming free trade zone with EU that
became possible after Ukraine joined WTO. During the meeting
of EU Profile Commissar Piter Mendelson with Ukrainian President
Victor Yushchenko, the parties aimed at working out a detailed
agreement on the issue.
February 19 Slovakia
will support
Ukrainein its
intention to
join the NATO
Membership Action
Plan on the
forthcoming Bucharest
Summit in April, stated Urban Rusnak, Slovak
Ambassador to Ukraine. However, he added that
there is no unanimity regarding the issue among all NATO
members.
During 6 months Ukrainians will be presented a new edition of Ukrainian Constitution, statedMaryna Stavniychuk, Deputy Head of Presidential Office, Representative of Ukrainian President in Constitutional Court. Victor Yushchenko approved the structure of new Constitutional Council consisting of 97 members. February 20
Six more politicians stated about their leaving the Nasha Ukraina Party: –Roman Bezsmertnyi, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office; Mykhailo Polianchych, Head of Control and Inspection Commission; Ihor Kril, Deputy Head of the Nasha Ukraina Party; Victor Topolov, Presidium Member of the Nasha Ukraina Party; Oksana Bilozir and Vasyl Petiovka, members of the Nasha Ukraina Political Council. Dissatisfaction with the party’s leadership’s activities was named by the politicians as the main reason of their leaving the party. It should be also mentioned that Victor Baloha, Head of the Presidential Office, left the party on February 15. February 21
Victor Yushchenko believes that leaving the NSNU by the seven politicians will not cause reforming the coalition, stated Iryna Vannikova, Press Secretary of the President. Presidium
of the Narodnyi
Soyuz Nasha
Ukraina announced
that the reasons
for the seven
politicians to
have left the
party were strained and
absurd. In their statement the party members
stressed that their former brother-in-arms deliberately or
non-deliberately damaged the reputation of Victor Yushchenko and
the reputation of the biggest political force supporting the
President both in the parliament in society.
The two-day visit of Yuliya Tymoshenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister, to Moscowcame to the end. During the visittheplanned meetings of Ukrainian Premier with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Victor Zubkov took place.As Yuliya Tymoshenko informed the media, the parties agreed to work out proposals on priorities regarding activities of every sub-commission of the Economic Cooperation Committee of the International Commission Yushchenko-Putin before April 2008. February 22
Head of Verkhovna Rada Arseniy Yatseniuk announced that signing the political agreement is planned for Monday, February 25. That became possible after negotiations with the parliamentary factions. The Speaker named the main points of the agreement: the parliament should work independently from any faction’s freaks; factions should restrain from blocking the parliament; parliament’s agenda should not contain issues splitting the society during election processes. The
Government approved
the NATO MAP
for 2008 and intends to submit it to the
President, announced Foreign Minister Volodymyr
Ohryzko. He also added that the cooperation plan contains many
obligations of Ukraine– from reforming the force structures to
bolstering freedom of speech.
On March 1, the NSNU Political Council will consider the issue of forming a united party based on the NUNS bloc, said Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, Head of the NSNU Political Council. He added that the united party’s statute and program are almost approved. Besides, the NUNS faction intends to intensify cooperation with the Lytvyn bloc for “strengthening positions of the Democratic Coalition”. February 23 On February 22, during the Savik Shuster’s TV program, Former Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko stated that Yekhanurov’s government betrayed Ukraine’s national interest having agreed to lessen gas transit rates. Hrytsenkomarked thatearlier Ukrainehad received 20 billion of cubic meters of gas and today - only 9 billion of cubic meters for transition of Russian gas.The ex-Minister informed the public that the gas negotiations had been held behind the back of the Ukrainian government that was forced to face the fact of unprofitable agreement. At that time, the notorious RosUkrEnergo Company started its work on the gas market. The company’s statute was approved by Yuriy Yekhanurov. Hrytsenko stressed that the recent verbal understandings between Russian and Ukrainian presidents regarding the gas issue were not confirmed by any documents. Anatoliy Hrytsenko believes that the main problem today is “somebody’s attempt to establish a joint enterprise with 50% of Gasprom’s share fraction and access to Ukrainian internal market”. Ukrainian Cabinet of
Ministers increased child birth benefit payment to Hr
12,240 for a first child; Hr 25,000 for a second child; Hr 50,000
for a third one and next children.
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