| Opposition YTB reiterates call for rally near Parliament on Tuesday |
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| Friday, 03 September 2010 16:19 |
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The first deputy head of the Fatherland party, Oleksandr Turchynov, has reiterated a call by oppositionist Yulia Tymoshenko to rally near the Parliament building in Kyiv on September 7. He said the rally will demand that Parliament adopt a bill on the Stockholm court ruling regarding state-owned energy company Naftohaz Ukrayiny.
Speaking on September 2, Turchynov said that Naftohaz Ukrayiny has not appealed against the ruling of the Kyiv Shevchenkivskiy district court that upheld the verdict by the Stockholm court of arbitration, which stated Naftohaz should return 12.1bn cubic metres of gas to the Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo. "Naftohaz did not appeal on time, and for this reason dropped the appeal," the UNIAN news agency quoted him as saying. He went on to say that "the owners of Naftohaz and of RosUkrEnergo are the same people". "This decision is, of course, beneficial to them. But it is not beneficial to Ukraine," he noted.
The Fatherland party is part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction in Parliament. The seventh session of the current sixth convocation of the Ukrainian Parliament is scheduled to convene on September 7.
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