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Speaker attempts to unblock work of Parliament |
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Monday, 11 February 2008 17:46 |
Parliamentary speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk has come up with a proposal to vote on a referendum about entry into NATO after Ukraine receives a formal offer from NATO, which may happen at the NATO summit in Bucharest in April 2008, private Ukrainian TV reported today.
Yatsenyuk was speaking at a meeting of the agenda-setting council in Parliament today, trying to make a breakthrough in the current standoff in Parliament. "This way, we solve this situation for the next three months," he said.
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Parliamentary speaker views NATO bid as "path to reforms," confident on WTO |
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Monday, 11 February 2008 17:45 |
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NATO membership will benefit Ukraine, parliamentary speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with a commercial TV channel broadcast on February 10, Yatsenyuk said: "I believe Ukraine's membership in the alliance will bring a plus. However, this will not happen either tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or in five, or in 10 years. This is a path to reforms."
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Constitutional Court throws out two MP inquiries |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 19:52 |
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has decided to stop proceedings on the constitutionality of President Viktor Yushchenko's decree of 5 June calling an early parliamentary election on 30 September, the court's press service reported today.
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Opposition Party of Regions blames Cabinet for rising inflation |
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Friday, 08 February 2008 19:00 |
The opposition Party of Regions has rejected Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's accusations against it. Tymoshenko had said earlier that the policies of the previous Yanukovych Cabinet had triggered the rise in inflation.
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Draft bill envisages return of capital punishment |
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Friday, 08 February 2008 18:59 |
The Communist Party has developed a draft bill that supports re-introduction of capital punishment, a Ukrainian business daily reported today.
If the bill is passed, killers and rapists would face the death penalty. The death penalty was outlawed in Ukraine back in 2000.
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State procurement bill stirs controversy within parliamentary coalition |
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Friday, 08 February 2008 13:03 |
President Viktor Yushchenko has said that after he submitted a bill on state procurements to Parliament, both opposition as well as coalition MPs started to collect signatures for the dismissal of speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yushchenko said this at a meeting with the regional governors in Kyiv on February 7.
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Draft bill on referendums registered in Parliament |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 12:01 |
Yuriy Klyuchkovskiy, an MP of the propresidential Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defence bloc, has registered a draft bill on referendums with the parliamentary section for registration of draft bills. The issue of referendums is certainly a topical one, with the current parliamentary opposition demanding a referendum on the issue of NATO membership.
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