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"POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT,
ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY"
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power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, British
historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
True then, true today, true always.
"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 124
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Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, MONDAY, July 26, 2004
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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"
1. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT CRITICIZES FORMER U.S.
AMBASSADORS PIFER AND PASCUAL FOR BIASED REPORTING
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian, 24 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
2. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES U.S. EX-AMBASSADORS
PIFER AND PASCUAL OF FAVOURING THE OPPOSITION
UT1 state TV channel, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 24 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, 24, 2004
3. GROUP OF JOURNALISTS POST GONGADZE MURDER CASE
DOCUMENTS ON WEBSITE AT WWW.DELOGONGADZE.ORG
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 23 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jul 23, 2004
4. OLEKSANDR MOROZ WRITES: "A WILD FIELD"
The prosecutor's office and the police officially acknowledge:
"Yes, we did follow Gongadze."
By Oleksandr Moroz, Ukraine's Socialist Party Leader
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
5. UKRAINE'S SOCIALIST LEADER OLEKSANDR MOROZ
THINKS UKRAINE WILL NEVER BE A MEMBER OF THE EU
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004
6. UKRAINIAN STATE TV PROGRAM ADVOCATES STRONG
NEED FOR DANUBE-BLACK SEA SHIPPING CANAL
UT1 State TV Channel, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jul 23, 2004
7.UNESCO CONSIDERS UKRAINE'S CONSTRUCTION OF DANUBE-
BLACK SEA SHIPPING CANAL IN BYSTRE ESTUARY THE
MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY HARMFUL OPTION
By Yaroslav Zahreba, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, Fri, July 23, 2004
8. CALLS MADE FOR DISMISSAL OF UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PRIME
MINISTER FOR FUEL AND ENERGY OVER MINE DISASTER
Minister has been on leave campaigning for PM Viktor Yanukovych
Era TV, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 25 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sunday, Jul 25, 2004
9. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE: UKRAINIAN MINES ARE WORLD'S
MOST DANGEROUS, WE HAVE A CENTURIES-OLD INDUSTRY
By Anna Melnichuk, AP Worldstream, Kiev, Ukraine, Fri Jul 23, 2004
10. POPE JOHN PAUL II CONDOLENCE MESSAGE TO UKRAINE
Pope sends sympathy to the relatives and friends of the coal mine victims
ZENIT News Agency, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, Wed, July 21, 2004
11. RUSSIA TO MAINTAIN ITS BLACK SEA FLEET
HEADQUARTERS IN UKRAINIAN PORT OF SEVASTOPOL
AP Worldstream, Sevastopol, Ukraine, Sunday, Jul 25, 2004
12. SLOVAKIA FUNDS DEMOCRATIZATION PROJECTS
IN UKRAINE AND BELARUS
DEMOCRACY DIGEST, Volume 1, Number 12
The Weekly Bulletin of the Transatlantic Democracy Network
World Movement for Democracy, Freedom House
New York, NY, Friday, July 23, 2004
13. MOST UKRAINIANS UNWILLING TO PROTEST AGAINST
VOTE-RIGGING ACCORDING TO NEW POLL
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 23 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jul 23, 2004
14.TWENTY-FIVE POLITICAL PARTIES AND ALMOST 100 NGO'S
HAVE UNITED TO SUPPORT YANUKOVYCH FOR PRESIDENT
Political union may be given the name "Ukraine for Yanukovych"
One Plus One TV, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian. 24 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
15. UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION
New Free Electronic Newsletter: "Ukraine and the Environment"
Ukrainian-American Environmental Association (UAEA)
Takoma Park, Maryland and Rivne, Ukraine, Monday, July 26, 2004
16. NAZI DEATH CAMP SURVIVORS MARK 60TH ANNIVERSARY
Inmates were also brought to Majdanek, in eastern Poland, from Ukraine,
Russia, Belarus, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and the Netherlands.
Associated Press (AP), Majdanek, Poland, Friday, July 23, 2004
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1. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT CRITICIZES FORMER U.S.
AMBASSADORS PIFER AND PASCUAL FOR BIASED REPORTING
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian, 24 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
DNIPROPETROVSK - Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma thinks that
the former US ambassadors to Ukraine, Steven Pifer and Carlos Pascual,
one-sidedly informed the leadership of their country about the situation in
Ukraine. Kuchma said this in Dnipropetrovsk today in an interview with
journalists.
"I've got an impression that they worked only for one side - the opposition.
But it should not be like that. I think the information that reached the US
leadership was distorted. Ambassadors should not work like this," Kuchma
pointed out.
Pifer [currently deputy assistant secretary of state for European and
Eurasian affairs] was appointed US ambassador to Ukraine on 2 October
1997 and sworn in on 6 January 1998. He worked in Ukraine until October
2000. He was replaced by Pascual, who worked as ambassador until
August 2003. Currently, the US ambassador to Ukraine is John Herbst.
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Pifer is currently deputy assistant secretary of state for European and
Eurasian affairs is not correct. As reported by The Action Ukraine Report
#116 on July 15, 2004 Amb. Pifer's term in that position ended in early
July, 2004. Ambassador John F. Tefft now holds that position. (Editor)
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2. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES U.S. EX-AMBASSADORS
PIFER AND PASCUAL OF FAVOURING THE OPPOSITION
UT1 state TV channel, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 24 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, 24, 2004
President Leonid Kuchma has said that two former US ambassadors to
Ukraine conveyed a distorted picture of events in the country to their
superiors in Washington. Speaking at a news conference in the city of
Dnipropetrovsk on 24 July, Kuchma said that ambassadors Steven Pifer
(1998-2000) and Carlos Pascual (2000-2003) had favoured the
opposition in their reports.
Kuchma also said that it was still possible to implement controversial
amendments to the constitution this September. While these reforms have
generally been presented as shifting power from the presidency to the
parliament and government, today Kuchma emphasized the need to give
the president more influence over parliament.
The following is an excerpt from a report by Ukrainian state-owned
television UT1 on 24 July:
[Presenter] President Leonid Kuchma believes that rumours of his intention
to run for a third term allowed negative reactions to be deflected from the
single candidate for the presidency from the parliament-government
coalition, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Kuchma made this statement
during a press-conference in Dnipropetrovsk Region.
[Correspondent] The president considers the rumours about his third term
played a positive role for the current candidate, Viktor Yanukovych.
However, he admitted that this benefit was very painful for him. Kuchma
said that the West's policy on this matter was not entirely correct.
[Kuchma] You understand, that if, for example, the candidate from the
authorities, Viktor Yanukovych, had announced a couple of years ago that
he would be running for president. They would have stopped digging away
at me and gone for him. [Passage omitted: Already reported remarks.]
Kuchma believes that certain Western politicians do not particularly want
Ukraine to appear as a politically and economically strong state in the
centre of Europe.
Kuchma also considers it impossible for the opposition [the Communists,
Socialists, and the centre-right Our Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc]
to join forces at the upcoming presidential election.
[Kuchma] We have had a number of quartets over the years. The configuration
has changed slightly. Some players have been permanent. My impression is
unambiguous. These are absolutely different people, absolutely different
politicians with absolutely different ideologies. To unite them - excuse me,
they were united only by their greed for power. They were helped in this
by - you understand very well what - the cassette scandal and the arms, and
so on.
[Recordings allegedly made in the president's office by a former bodyguard
that were released in late 2000 appeared to implicate Kuchma in the
abduction of investigative reporter Heorhiy Gongadze, whose headless
corpse was found outside Kiev. In September 2002, the US administration
said it had authenticated another section in the tapes where Kuchma appears
to authorize sale of sensitive military equipment to Iraq in violation of UN
sanctions.]
[Correspondent] Kuchma believes it is possible to implement political reform
in September. Today there is still a historic opportunity for it to happen
in September, Kuchma said. Kuchma also promised that after he gives up
his powers, he will say more about why the reforms failed to pass in April.
[Kuchma] It is impossible to live in a country where everyone is on their
own. What do I have in mind? Parliament is on its own. The government is
on its own. The president lacks the levers to influence life in the country.
When they speak of the Ukrainian president having some extraordinary
powers - [changes tack] You know, the president of Ukraine does not
have the most important thing that exists in every country without exception
- a mechanism for influencing parliament.
[Correspondent] The former ambassadors in Ukraine, Carlos Pascual and
Steven Pifer, gave one-sided information to the leaders of their country
about the situation in Ukraine, Kuchma said.
[Kuchma] I had the impression that they were working for only one force -
the one that was in opposition. That is wrong. I think that distorted,
excuse me, information was sent to the US leaders. Ambassadors should
not work like that. (END) (ARTUIS)
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3. GROUP OF JOURNALISTS POST GONGADZE MURDER CASE
DOCUMENTS ON WEBSITE AT WWW.DELOGONGADZE.ORG
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 23 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jul 23, 2004
KIEV - [Murdered journalist Heorhiy] Gongadze case leaks have turned into
a flood. After London's The Independent published some of the material [in
June], the Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine admitted that Heorhiy had
been shadowed by the police until the day he was kidnapped. The office
launched a criminal inquiry into how the pre-trial investigation materials
were leaked.
There has been a new development in the story. Very many transcribed
witness interrogations have been made public.
On Friday [23 July], the National Union of Journalists of Great Britain and
Ireland [as published, NUJ] issued a press release. It said that Gongadze
case materials had been posted at www.delogongadze.org. The web site
was created by "a group of journalists who asked the NUJ for assistance in
making the documents public", the press release said.
"Documents posted at www.delogongadze.org can give important evidence
substantiating The Independent's allegations last month that the Gongadze
probe was blocked at the highest level of authority," the NUJ said.
"The NUJ sees the Gongadze case as a key test of European-level media
freedom. Together with the International Federation of Journalists and our
colleagues from Ukraine, the NUJ campaigns for a thorough investigation and
a fair resolution of the case."
The NUJ believes that the documents are authentic, but is unable to organize
an independent inspection [of them]. However, we are convinced that the
maximum possible transparency is needed in this case, and therefore we want
to draw journalists' and researchers' attention to this case. [Passage
omitted: statement by NUJ leader Jeremy Dear]
A total of over 180 pages of transcribed Gongadze witness interrogations
have been posted at www.delogongadze.org. They include transcripts of
questioning of [former senior policeman who died in custody] Ihor Honcharov,
journalist Oleh Yeltsov, [opposition-minded] Radio Kontynent director Serhiy
Sholokh [who is now in exile], members of the "werewolves gang" [of renegade
policemen] and surveillance agents who had shadowed Heorhiy. (END)
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4. OLEKSANDR MOROZ WRITES: "A WILD FIELD"
The prosecutor's office and the police officially acknowledge:
"Yes, we did follow Gongadze."
By Oleksandr Moroz, Ukraine's Socialist Party Leader
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Russian 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
Since the authorities admitted on 14 July that murdered journalist Heorhiy
Gongadze was put under police surveillance in 2000, Socialist Party leader
Oleksandr Moroz has published an article asking why the authorities have
said nothing more during the intervening week and why compromised
officials have not confessed or resigned.
Moroz, who is also a presidential candidate, regarded the latest revelations
as "coming very close" to an admission that the authorities ordered
Gongadze's murder.
The following is the text of the article by Moroz, posted on the Ukrayinska
Pravda opposition web site on 22 July, entitled "A wild field":
The investigation into the death of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze acts like a
piece of litmus paper regarding the state of justice in Ukraine. For four
years, the Ukrainian authorities have demonstrated to the whole world that
the law can be deceived - by confusing the inquiries, losing evidence and
failing to notice obvious facts. Now the authorities are showing that the
law can be openly cast aside.
Not long before his abduction, Heorhiy requested Prosecutor-General
[Mykhaylo] Potebenko to find out why officers from the Interior Ministry
had placed him under illegal surveillance.
The prosecutor "found this out" and officially declared that the police had
not been following the journalist. After Gongadze's abduction, leading
officials at the prosecutor's office (Potebenko, [Oleksiy] Bahanets,
[Serhiy] Vynokurov) and police chiefs (Yuriy Kravchenko, [Mykola]
Dzhyha) stressed repeatedly that there had been no surveillance of
Gongadze.
After the tapes of conversations made by Mykola Melnychenko had
revealed who had ordered the crime - President Leonid Kuchma, to whom
Kravchenko had reported more than once on the surveillance of Heorhiy,
the authorities continued to assure the Ukrainian and foreign public alike
that the tapes were "forgeries". All this was supposed to be a fabrication
by the opposition and political manoeuvring.
Then officials acknowledged that some of the tapes were genuine. Yes,
illegal orders had been issued. But they had not, it was said, been carried
out. That was how the legal jesuits contrived to shield the top brass.
And now, four years on, the prosecutor's office and the police officially
acknowledge: "Yes, we did follow Gongadze." But that is equivalent to
saying: YES, THEY LIED! And it comes very close to admitting: YES,
THEY KILLED HIM!
A whole week has now passed since the day on which it was officially
admitted that Heorhiy Gongadze had been placed under illegal surveillance.
Yet none of the senior officials has even tried to confess or resign -
although no one any longer expects such people to act honourably.
No one has even tried to give some kind of explanation about what the
inquiry was doing for four whole years if the most important evidence had
been thrown away. This evidence was, first and foremost, Heorhiy's own
communication giving details of the surveillance and the number of the
police car that tailed him.
No one is trying to explain why and how a vital witness to the crime, police
officer Ihor Honcharov, was killed right inside a guarded investigation
detention centre.
How can President Leonid Kuchma, who proclaimed the past decade "the
Kuchma era", dare not to react in any way to these outrageous occurrences?
It was he who gave his word to find the killers and to bring the best minds
to bear on the investigation, he who looked Heorhiy's [female] friend in the
eye! The president is silent. The president has forced his loyal majority in
the Supreme Council [parliament] to remain silent and has banned the
parliamentary report of the commission of inquiry into the Gongadze affair.
They think that silence is a sign of self-confidence. But, above all, it is
a sign of a lack of self-respect - a lack of respect for the family of the
deceased and for society. It is a total and cynical disregard for the law.
Another point. Both the Socialist Party, our faction in the Supreme Council
and, I have no doubt, all opposition forces will stop the authorities from
pretending that the murder of Heorhiy Gongadze can be covered up by the
clamour over the presidential elections.
As long as the law-enforcement agencies in Ukraine can allow themselves
to persecute ordinary citizens - instead of fighting the drugs mafia,
corruption and the theft of state resources - all talk of democratic
elections is just deception. It is absurd to travel abroad, exchange
democratic experience and play at being "a leader on a European scale"
when everyone knows that there is not a trace of democracy here. It is a
wild field.
I am certain that, while President Kuchma retains his power, while [Prime
Minister] Viktor Yanukovych, the single candidate from the authorities in
the presidential elections, retains his power, they must provide an answer
[to the question of] why lawlessness within the country is officially
sanctioned.
Not only the opposition needs this, or society or journalists. Both Kuchma
and Yanukovych need it, since they are obliged to preserve at least some
crumbs of authority from the very institution of power. The silence of the
officials involved in the killing of Heorhiy Gongadze will not be able to
stave off the trial, which will definitely take place, since all the
evidence has already been mustered.
Against this backdrop, the statements about the "European course" and about
integration into the European Union and Euro-Atlantic bodies simply look
like cheap PR and a tragic farce.
A country in which the law is openly disregarded by the very people whose
office means that they should defend it will never end up in Europe. No one
in a respected community is waiting to receive those who do not respect
themselves. (END) (ARTUIS)
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5. UKRAINE'S SOCIALIST LEADER OLEKSANDR MOROZ
THINKS UKRAINE WILL NEVER BE A MEMBER OF THE EU
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thursday, Jul 22, 2004
IVANO-FRANKIVSK - The Socialist presidential candidate, Oleksandr
Moroz, has said that he thinks Ukraine will never be a member of the
European Union. He said this on arriving in Ivano-Frankivsk [western
Ukraine, on 21 July], according to the BBC Ukrainian Service.
Moroz said that in the event of winning [the October presidential election]
he would not set himself the goal of joining the EU, and dubbed the current
declarations by the government and opposition about European integration
as speculation.
"We will never be in the European Union, and there's nothing for us to do
there. And does the European Union want it? I'm sure that it does not.
Things aren't that easy for those countries that have just joined the EU,
nor is it much better for those that joined earlier," he said. The
Socialist leader also said that if he came to power he would direct his
policy neither to the East or West.
Joining the European Union is the officially announced strategic goal of
Ukrainian foreign policy, and Oleksandr Moroz has not said earlier that he
is against EU membership. The Socialist leader says in his presidential
[election] manifesto that Ukraine is a European state and speaks of the
European choice. (END) (ARTUIS)
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6. UKRAINIAN STATE TV PROGRAM ADVOCATES STRONG
NEED FOR DANUBE-BLACK SEA SHIPPING CANAL
UT1 State TV Channel, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 22 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jul 23, 2004
KIEV - The UT1 Ukrainian state television channel has shown a feature story
about the Danube delta, which advocated the need for a shipping canal from
the Danube to the Black Sea. The film was shown as part of the programme
"Not everything is so bad" on 22 July, when an EU delegation arrived in
Ukraine to investigate the Danube-Black-Sea canal situation.
The TV interviewed officials from the nearby town of Vylkovo. They argued
that the canal will revive their town and create much-needed jobs there.
They gave an example of the Romanian side of the natural resort in the
Danube delta, which is split into pieces and does not include Danube canals.
"A long, at least three-year study of all arms of the Danube on Ukrainian
territory showed that the best choice in both navigational and ecological
terms, i.e. with the least human influence, is the Bystroye arm," the
economic adviser to the Vylkovo mayor, Vasyl Prokopenko, told the
programme's correspondent. "It is very deep - up to 12 m. It needs changes
only in its estuary, about 2-2.5 km, where the canal should be built. Its
depth should be 5 m. at the first stage and 7 m. at the second. This work
will be done in the coastal waters or at sea and it will have practically no
influence on the environment at the banks of the [Bystroye] arm,"
Prokopenko said.
"About eight big companies used to work in Vylkovo. But now we have the
problem of unemployment. The construction of the canal will give an economic
boost to our town and the entire Danube region in general because it means
additional jobs, additional investment, additional funds for the state
budget," deputy Vylkovo mayor Oleksandr Delyukov argued the case of the
town authorities who decided to take the Bystroye arm out of the nature
reserve earlier this year.
If Ukraine opens the canal to the Black Sea on time, it has a good chance of
joining the naval freight flow along the No 7 international transport
corridor, the deputy head of the Delta-Lotsman state pilot enterprise,
Kostyantyn Syzov, pointed out in an interview with the programme. "This is
an international priority for Ukraine. If we do not manage to jump into this
place it will be occupied by somebody else," the presenter concluded. (END)
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7. UNESCO CONSIDERS UKRAINE'S CONSTRUCTION OF DANUBE-
BLACK SEA SHIPPING CANAL IN BYSTRE ESTUARY THE
MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY HARMFUL OPTION
By Yaroslav Zahreba, Ukrainian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, Fri, July 23, 2004
KIEV - UNESCO, which has designated the Danube biosphere reserve as
part of its international network of Man and Biosphere reserves, has
expressed the belief that the option involving construction of the Danube-
Black Sea shipping lane in the Bystre Estuary is the most ecologically
harmful of all the possible construction options.
UNESCO expressed this belief in a report submitted to Ukraine's Deputy
Prime Minister Andrii Kliuev, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained. The
report, which was drafted as a result of a visit to Ukraine by experts with
UNESCO's Man and Biosphere reserves program and the secretariat of
the Ramsar convention, states that all the three options for construction of
the canal would damage the reserve.
In particular, the report states that the option that involves construction
of the canal in the Bystre Estuary would cause the biggest damage to the
environment and that the compensatory environmental-protection measures
in the area would require large amounts of money and time.
The report states that the option of launching the canal through restoration
of the Danube's Ochakivskyi estuary is acceptable, considering the need
to realize the project within a short period. However, it also states that
this option is essentially a transition option for the third option.
According to the report, the option of realizing the project through
construction of a sluice canal from the Solomonov distributary to the
Zhebriianskyi bay in the Black Sea would cost the least environmental damage
and that maintenance of the canal would require lower expenditures compared
with the other two options.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Environmental Protection Ministry,
the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, and environmental organizations
repeatedly demanded that the Transport Ministry abandon the plan to build
the Danube-Black Sea canal in the Bystre estuary on the territory of the
Danube biosphere reserve.
The Ukrainian Transport Ministry started construction of the Danube-Black
Sea deep-water shipping canal in the Bystre Estuary in May. The Bystre
estuary has been designated part of the international network of the
UNESCO's Man and Biosphere reserves and part of the waters and a Ramsar
Wetland of International Importance.
Ukraine had earlier proposed that UNESCO broaden its cooperation with it.
Ukraine has been a member of UNESCO since 1954. Founded in 1946,
UNESCO focuses its activities on promoting international cooperation in the
areas of education, science, and culture. (END) (ARTUIS)
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8.CALLS MADE FOR DISMISSAL OF UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PRIME
MINISTER FOR FUEL AND ENERGY OVER MINE DISASTER
Minister has been on leave campaigning for PM Viktor Yanukovych
Era TV, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 25 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sunday, Jul 25, 2004
KIEV -[Presenter] The Prosecutor General's Office is conducting an
investigation into the deaths of miners at the Krasnolymanska mine in
Donetsk [where an explosion and fire occurred on 19 July]. Opposition forces
are demanding that the president dismiss Deputy Prime Minister for Fuel and
Energy Andriy Klyuyev. Roman Stryyskyy has more details.
[Correspondent] The accusations against the government were presented by
the first deputy head of the parliament committee for the fuel and energy
complex, Mykola Martynenko, a member of the [centre-right opposition]
Our Ukraine faction. He said that the government is not paying enough
attention to the critical situation in the coal sector and the
unsatisfactory level of safety for miners.
Martynenko said that the Krasnolymanska tragedy is the outcome of the
current government's ineffective and unsystematic work. However, the
presidential administration has described the accusations as an
inappropriate exploitation of a human tragedy in the context of the
[presidential] election campaign. This is what presidential administration
deputy head Vasyl Baziv said.
[Baziv] The problems of our coal sector are chronic in character. This is
the legacy we received from the previous state [the Soviet Union].
Therefore, it is not serious to link these problems to a particular
official. The statement by the Our Ukraine faction member should be seen in
the context of the election. In general, personnel decisions are not taken
on the basis of the day-to-day political environment - especially during an
election campaign.
[Correspondent] Baziv predicted countless similar statements about the
dismissal of government members, because these are a traditional element
in campaign technology. Meanwhile, the opposition is focusing attention
on the deputy prime minister, arguing that Klyuyev cannot effectively carry
out the duties of a deputy prime minister while he is simultaneously on
leave
and working in the campaign team of one of the presidential candidates.
[Klyuyev announced in early June that he would be going on leave until late
July in order to concentrate on party work. He is the secretary of the
political council of the Party of the Regions, which is led by Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the presidential candidate from the
parliament-government coalition. His chief rival is Our Ukraine leader
Viktor Yushchenko.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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9. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE: UKRAINIAN MINES ARE WORLD'S
MOST DANGEROUS, WE HAVE A CENTURIES-OLD INDUSTRY
By Anna Melnichuk, AP Worldstream, Kiev, Ukraine, Fri, Jul 23, 2004
KIEV - An aide to Ukraine's president on Friday described the country's
mines as the world's most dangerous while officials argued over the cause
of the explosion that killed at least 31 miners this week. "Problems in our
mines have a chronic nature, because we have inherited a centuries-old
industry," said Vasil Baziv, President Leonid Kuchma's deputy chief of
staff.
On Friday, workers continued pumping nitrogen into the Krasnolimanskaya
mine in order to cool the tunnels after the explosion-sparked fire so that
the search for five miners missing in Monday's blast could get under way.
Viktor Turmanov, the head of Ukraine's coal miners union and a member of a
commission investigating the accident, said the explosion was caused by a
spark when a ventilator fan was switched on, the ITAR-Tass news agency
reported. Mykhailo Volynets, another union leader, offered an alternative
version, claiming that the blast had occurred because of technological
violations at the mine, the ITAR-Tass said.
Baziv said three centuries of coal mining in Ukraine has exhausted the upper
coal layers, forcing miners ever deeper into danger. "Deep mining over 1,000
meters (3,281 feet) under the surface with high concentration of the methane
gas made Ukrainian mines the world's most dangerous," Baziv said. He added
that only 20 percent of coal enterprises are profitable.
Earlier this month, Kuchma authorized the Cabinet to unite profitable mines
in a national joint-stock company called Ugol Ukrainy. Kuchma said the
government should try to sell off mines not included in Ugol Ukrainy to
investors and to shut or sell all of unprofitable mines by the middle of
2006.
Also Friday, Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych called on trade
unions to do more, "together with the government", to improve safety in the
mines, Interfax news agency said. High concentrations of gas, safety
violations, rampant negligence, corruption and obsolete equipment plague
Ukrainian mines, where 4,276 workers have died in accidents since the 1991
collapse of the Soviet Union. (am/vi/jh) (END) (ARTUIS)
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10. POPE JOHN PAUL II CONDOLENCE MESSAGE TO UKRAINE
Pope sends sympathy to the relatives and friends of the coal mine victims
ZENIT News Agency, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, Wed, July 21, 2004
VATICAN CITY - John Paul II sent a message of condolence on hearing
of the Ukraine coal mine explosion that killed at least 31. Five others were
still reported missing in the wake of the blast Tuesday in eastern Ukraine.
In a telegram sent on behalf of the Pope by Vatican Secretary of State
Cardinal Angelo Sodano to Bishop Stepan Meniok, archdiocesan exarch of
Donetsk-Kharkiv, the Holy Father requested that his sympathy be expressed
to the relatives and friends of the victims, as well as to the authorities.
"While [the Pope] assures you of his fervent prayers for the repose of the
souls of the deceased and for consolation for the wounded and all those who
are suffering as a result of this serious accident, he sends you a special
apostolic blessing as a sign of his spiritual closeness," reads the telegram
published today by the Vatican press office.
Ukrainian authorities are investigating the explosion, which occurred in a
1,000-meter-deep mine in Krasnolimansk.
Ukraine's mines are considered among the most dangerous in the world, due
to the high concentration of methane gas, lax safety norms and outdated
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11. RUSSIA TO MAINTAIN ITS BLACK SEA FLEET
HEADQUARTERS IN UKRAINIAN PORT OF SEVASTOPOL
AP Worldstream, Sevastopol, Ukraine, Sunday, Jul 25, 2004
SEVASTOPOL - Russia will not move the headquarters of its Black Sea
Fleet from the Ukrainian port city of Sevastopol to a new base it plans to
build on its own territory, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov emphasized
Sunday.
President Vladimir Putin's decision last year to build a naval base in
Novorossiisk "absolutely, completely does not mean that we will reduce
our forces here in Sevastopol," Ivanov said during a visit to the Crimean
peninsula port for celebrations of Russia's Navy Day. "They will remain,
and of course the headquarters will remain."
Putin signed an order last September for the creation of a new base at
Novorossiisk, on Russia's Black Sea coast, and the commander of the
Black Sea Fleet later said it would be completed by 2010.
The commander, Adm. Vladimir Masorin, said at the tie that Russia's fleet
could not be expanded in Sevastopol. Ivanov, whose comments were
broadcast on state-run Rossiya television, said that the new base would
house marines and naval aviation units that are now located elsewhere in
southwestern Russia.
After several years of tense arguments following the 1991 Soviet collapse,
Russia and Ukraine divided the former Soviet fleet in the Black Sea and
agreed to jointly operate the Sevastopol base.
By tradition left over from the Soviet era, each branch of Russia's armed
forces is honored one day every year. Navy day festivities included
celebrations in Moscow as well as the headquarters of Russia's four
geographically ordered main units: the Black Sea, Baltic, Northern and
Pacific fleets. (sbg) (END) (ARTUIS)
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12. SLOVAKIA FUNDS DEMOCRATIZATION PROJECTS
IN UKRAINE AND BELARUS
DEMOCRACY DIGEST, Volume 1, Number 12
The Weekly Bulletin of the Transatlantic Democracy Network
World Movement for Democracy, Freedom House
New York, NY, Friday, July 23, 2004
Slovakia has appropriated a special fund of SK 10,000,000 (ca. $300,000)
in its 2004 budget for democratization projects in Belarus and Ukraine. The
decision is in line with Slovak foreign policy priorities. Slovakia shares a
small but important border with Ukraine and is only 600 km from Belarus.
Slovakia believes its experience in a difficult transition from the
authoritarian rule of Vladimír Meèiar to full EU and NATO membership holds
valuable lessons for other "transition" states. The forthcoming October 2004
parliamentary elections in Belarus and presidential elections in Ukraine are
key driving forces. By offering support for democratization in Belarus and
Ukraine, the Slovak government believes it is taking the lead among new EU
member states in assisting other post-communist countries in path of
transition.
The Slovak-Belarus Task Force, a project of the Pontis Foundation's
Institute for Civic Diplomacy, aims to strengthen links among independent
think tanks and civil society organizations in Belarus and to define a
strong economic reform strategy for the post-Lukashenka period. A new
policy paper on "Democratization and Civil Society Development in Belarus"
contains a summary of findings and recommendations of a recent policy
roundtable in Minsk, and reports on meetings with representatives of the
democratic opposition and civil society in Belarus.
Police arrested at least 30 protestors in the Belarusian capital Minsk on 21
July during an unauthorized protest against the authoritarian rule of
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Over 2,000 protesters gathered for the
10-year anniversary of Lukashenka's rise to power. Lukashenka may seek a
referendum on constitutional changes to allow him to run for a third term in
office after his current term ends in 2006. (END) (ARTUIS)
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13. MOST UKRAINIANS UNWILLING TO PROTEST AGAINST
VOTE-RIGGING ACCORDING TO NEW POLL
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 23 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jul 23, 2004
KIEV - Some 18.1 per cent of Ukrainians are ready to take part in protest
rallies if they think that the 2004 presidential election has been rigged,
according to a recent poll, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported on
23 July. Some 55.5 per cent of those polled said they are not going to
attend any rallies.
The poll was carried out by the Democratic Initiatives Fund and the Sotsis
centre on 1-8 July, the report said. A total of 1,200 adults in all
Ukrainian regions were polled, UNIAN added. The poll also revealed that
10.6 per cent of Ukrainians will attend rallies if the candidate they voted
for does not win. Some 15.8 per cent of those polled could not answer the
question.
Asked about their reaction if official election results significantly differ
from exit polls, 53.3 per said they would think that the election had been
rigged. Only 13.6 per cent said they would think it is pollsters who are
wrong. Some 33.2 per cent of respondents could not answer the question.
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14. TWENTY-FIVE POLITICAL PARTIES AND ALMOST 100 NGO'S
HAVE UNITED TO SUPPORT YANUKOVYCH FOR PRESIDENT
Political union may be given the name "Ukraine for Yanukovych"
One Plus One TV, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian. 24 Jul 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] Twenty five political parties and almost 100 NGOs have
united to support the prime minister [Viktor Yanukovych]. They rallied round
Yanukovych in the Ukrainian House cultural centre today [in Kiev].
[Correspondent] The politicians and activists signed the agreement in
various venues. Some party leaders were unable to attend. But this document
remains open for signing. People's Democratic Party leader Valeriy
Pustovoytenko said that the goal of the new political structure is an honest
fight for Yanukovych's victory in the autumn election. Pustovoytenko has
almost no doubt about the result. Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn sees the
possibility of a Yanukovych victory as entirely positive.
[Lytvyn] Stability, succession, and a new dynamic and a new quality.
[Correspondent] In a few weeks, the political union may be given the name
Ukraine for Yanukovych. One of the conditions of the agreement on creating
this organization was renewing and enhancing the quality of the work of the
coalition majority in parliament. The parties and NGOs that came together in
the new bloc promised each other to consult with each other and with the
bodies of various branches of power, and to issue joint statements. The
candidate himself made several such statements. First, Yanukovych is
convinced that he will win the election. At least, as he put it, the other
candidates will not gain the presidency.
[Yanukovych, in Russian] First, I can confidently say that this will not
happen.
[Voice resembling that of Yanukovych's campaign manager Serhiy
Tyhypko] That's science fiction. [Voice] And second and third? [applause]
[Yanukovych] Yes. [applause] Second, I consider that these are very
responsible people. They are politicians who also - just like me - want to
build a strong state. And I think that a place will be found on this path
for everyone.
[Correspondent] Second, victory in the election will continue and strengthen
the country's economic successes and will contribute to the political
unification of the state. That is why the authorities are insisting on
political reform, Yanukovych said. Yanukovych said President Leonid
Kuchma may soon determine his political plans.
[Yanukovych] The president must today have this possibility, and we will
create all the conditions for it in order that President Kuchma finish his
term with dignity.
[Correspondent] In the new Ukraine that Yanukovych plans to build a healthy
opposition will operate. Since, as Yanukovych said, nobody may be restricted
in expressing their point of view. If he wins, Yanukovych promises a foreign
policy that will be more specific and transparent.
Among the most important priorities will be building new relations with
Russia, signing a number of documents with European partners. Yanukovych
said that together with coalition members will really build a real economy -
the independent economy of a European state. (END) (ARTUIS)
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15. UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION
New Free Electronic Newsletter: "Ukraine and the Environment"
Ukrainian-American Environmental Association (UAEA)
Takoma Park, Maryland and Rivne, Ukraine, Monday, July 26, 2004
TAKOMA PARK, MD -- A new international, non-profit environmental
educational organization, the Ukrainian-American Environmental Association
(UAEA), has been founded by Ukrainian and U.S. environmental
professionals to facilitate information-sharing and promote cooperative
efforts to address a broad array of ecological concerns affecting both the
United States and Ukraine.
Issues of interest include, but are not limited to: energy, climate change,
air pollution, soil contamination, toxic wastes, water pollution, wildlife
preservation, sustainable agriculture, and wilderness preservation.
A free-of-charge, weekly electronic newsletter, "Ukraine and the
Environment Update" is now being sent to members of the network with
news updates, research reports, statistical information, conference
announcements, organizational profiles, fundraising and educational
opportunities, and related information. Information will be made
available in English and/or Ukrainian (and, on occasion, Russian).
Persons wishing to have their names added to UAEA's newsletter
distribution list should send an e-mail to ua_ea@yahoo.com. Please
include your organization's name (if applicable) as well as a web
address if you have one.
Incorporated in Washington DC, UAEA is initially working out of offices
in both Takoma Park, Maryland (USA) and in Rivne, Ukraine. Its
founding board of directors includes:
* Carol Werner: Executive Director, Environmental & Energy Study
Institute, Washington DC
* Taras Lychuk: Researcher + Soil Scientist; Co-Director, EcoClub,
Rivne, Ukraine
* Ken Bossong: former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer - Ukraine;
Coordinator, Sustainable Energy Coalition, Washington DC
UAEA's near-term goal is to evolve a large network of American and
Ukrainian non-profit organizations, educational institutions,
businesses, government agencies, and interested citizens working on
various aspects of environmental policy. Through this network, UAEA
will enable participants to more effectively influence important
environmental decisions on the local and national levels.
Longer-term goals include developing a data base of environmental
indicators in Ukraine and the U.S., issuing short reports and policy
recommendations to address environmental problems in both countries,
and facilitating professional exchanges, student scholarships, training
projects, international conferences, business investments, partnerships
between U.S. and Ukrainian municipalities, joint research projects, and
municipal environmental awards programs.
UAEA will not seek to influence partisan political issues such as the
forthcoming presidential elections in both Ukraine and the United
States. However, it will work to build bridges between environmental
decision makers in the U.S. Congress and federal agencies and their
counterparts in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) and Ukraine's
environmental ministries. (END) (ARTUIS)
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16. NAZI DEATH CAMP SURVIVORS MARK 60TH ANNIVERSARY
Inmates were also brought to Majdanek, in eastern Poland, from Ukraine,
Russia, Belarus, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and the Netherlands.
Associated Press (AP), Majdanek, Poland, Friday, July 23, 2004
MAJDANEK, Poland - Survivors of the former Nazi concentration camp at
Majdanek in eastern Poland marked the 60th anniversary of its liberation
yesterday, joining young people, Polish government officials and the Israeli
ambassador in remembering its victims.
An estimated 230,000 people, including some 100,000 Jews and nearly as
many non-Jewish Poles, died in gas chambers or from inhuman treatment at
the Nazi SS-run camp near Lublin from October 1941 until its liberation by
Soviet troops in July 1944, according to the camp memorial museum.
Inmates were also brought to Majdanek from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
Germany, Austria, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Young people from
many of the nations took part in today's ceremony, which included the
laying of white lilies and yellow roses at the camp's memorial.
Former inmate Janina Zmyslowska said it was still painful for her to visit
the camp where the Nazis imprisoned her when she was 14. "I still
remember how we had to undress and were rushed naked to take
showers, sometimes in the freezing cold," she said. "I'm 80, and this
could be my last time here." "Every time I think about it, it is still very
painful and I think this feeling will stay with me until the end of my
life."
At the ceremony, Israeli Ambassador David Peleg underscored the
importance of remembrance and expressed hope that the world had learned
from the Holocaust. He praised post-communist Poland, saying civic leaders
were committed to combating racism and anti-Semitism.
A march through the camp by the elderly survivors was cancelled because of
the summer heat. Majdanek, a sprawling compound of barracks that housed
up to 25,000 inmates, served mainly as a forced labor camp and as a
detention centre for Polish resistance fighters. (END) (ARTUIS)
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