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CANADA SPOKE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND HAS THE RIGHT TO DO SO
Canadians should be angry about the way Ukraine has acted in response
"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 171
The Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
Ukrainian Federation of America (UFA), Huntingdon Valley, PA
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, THURSDAY, September 23, 2004
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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"
1.FOREIGN MINISTRY APPRAISES CANADIAN AMBASSADOR'S
COMMENTS ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN UKRAINE AS
DISSONANT FROM SPIRIT OF PARTNERSHIP RELATIONS
Ukrainian National News Agency (Ukrinform)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, September 22, 2004
2. UKRAINE RAPS CANADIAN AMBASSADOR OVER
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STATEMENT
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Sep 22, 2004
3. CANADIAN AMBASSADOR CRITICAL OF UKRAINE
POLITICS ACTED ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM OTTAWA
Agency France-Presse (AFP), Montreal, Canada, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
4.CANADA SERIOUSLY CONCERNED THAT COMING UKRAINIAN
ELECTIONS WILL FAIL TO MEET DEMOCRATIC STANDARDS
Declaration by Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine, Andrew Robinson
MAPLE LEAF NEWS, Vol. 16
E-zine published by the Canadian Embassy in Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
5. CANADA SPOKE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND HAS THE RIGHT TO DO SO
Canadians should be angry about the way Ukraine has acted in response
COMMENTARY, Inside Ukraine Newsletter
Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, September 23, 2004
6. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA LAMBASTES WORLD
PRESS OVER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE
World does not pay attention when USA and G7 fail to meet obligations
Expresses bewilderment at criticism over use of administrative pressure
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
7. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT WARNS OF "DIRTY" ELECTION
RAPS INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE
One Plus One TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
8. UKRAINE TO DESTROY SOLID MISSILE FUEL WITHOUT
HELP FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Kuchma says their strategic partner, the USA, duped Ukraine on this matter
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
9 GEORGIA, UKRAINE URGE EUROPEAN UNION TO EXPAND
INTO FORMER SOVIET STATES, VIEW SUPPORTED BY POLAND
Barbara Borst, AP Worldstream, New York, NY, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
10. UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL HENNADII VASYLIEV
TO RESIGN AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, September 22, 2004
11. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT DISMISSES DEFENSE MINISTER
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
12. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE YUSHCHENKO
POISONED BY RICIN ACCORDING TO LEADER OF UPP
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
13. "RUSSIA, PUTIN AND DEMOCRACY"
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: Jane's Intelligence Digest
Coulsdon, Surry, United Kingdom, Friday, September 24, 2004
14. GONGADZE'S WIDOW MAKES STATEMENT ON GRANTING
IMMUNITY TO PRESIDENT KUCHMA AFTER HE LEAVES OFFICE
COMMENTARY by Myroslava Gongadze
Institute of Mass Information (IMI), Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
15. ANTI-SEMITISM IN UKRAINIAN MEDIA UP, AND ITS
ACCEPTANCE IS WORRYING JEWS
By Vladimir Matveyev and Walter Ruby
Global News Service of the Jewish People
JTA, New York, NY, Sunday, Sep 19, 2004
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-04, No.171: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
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1. FOREIGN MINISTRY APPRAISES CANADIAN AMBASSADOR'S
COMMENTS ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN UKRAINE AS
DISSONANT FROM SPIRIT OF PARTNERSHIP RELATIONS
Ukrainian National News Agency (Ukrinform)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, September 22, 2004
KYIV - Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Andrew Robinson was
invited to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday
in connection with his publicly made statement about the election
campaign in Ukraine, which was circulated on September 21 and
which the Foreign Ministry views as dissonant from the spirit of
partnership relations between Ukraine and Canada.
According to Foreign Ministry deputy press service chief Dmitri
Svistkov, the Canadian envoy's attention was drawn to the openly
biased nature of utterances, which were made in amidst the election
campaign in Ukraine, in particular, the envoy's personal appraisal of
the upcoming presidential election, his doubts with regard to the
legitimacy of Ukraine's future authority and sundry recommendations
to Ukrainian officials.
As the host side stressed, Ambassador Robinson's statement to the
above effect contradicts the Canadian leadership's repeatedly stated
interestedness in promoting bilateral relations in the spirit of
partnership, mutual trust and respect, and the Canadian Embassy's
excessive attention to matters of Ukraine's internal political life vis-a-
vis lacking tangible improvements in concrete areas of Canadian-
Ukrainian cooperation cannot but cause profound disappointment and
gives grounds to question the Embassy's objectiveness in informing the
Canadian Government about the real situation in Ukraine. -30-
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FOOTNOTE: The statement by the Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine
released Tuesday in Kyiv was published in The Action Ukraine Report
No. 171 yesterday as article nunber three. We have republished the
statement in this Report as article number four (see below). (EDITOR)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-04, No.171: ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
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2. UKRAINE RAPS CANADIAN AMBASSADOR OVER
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STATEMENT
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
KIEV - Canadian ambassador to Ukraine Andrew Robinson was
summoned to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry today over his 21
September press statement on the [presidential] election campaign.
It was pointed out to the Canadian ambassador that his statements, which
were made in the midst of the election campaign, were openly biased, the
deputy head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press service, Dmytro
Svistkov, told Interfax-Ukraine. Among the statements were his personal
views of the upcoming election, doubts about the legitimacy of the future
executive and various pieces of advice to Ukrainian cabinet members.
It was also stressed that Robinson's statement was out of line with
Canada's interest in developing ties with Ukraine in the spirit of
partnership, mutual trust and respect, which the Canadian leadership
declared on numerous occasions.
Set against the background of absence of specific progress in
Ukrainian-Canadian relations, the embassy's excessive interest in domestic
political developments in Ukraine has caused deep disappointment and is
a reason to doubt that the embassy informs its government about the real
situation in Ukraine in an objective manner.
It was reported earlier that in his statement Robinson voiced the Canadian
government's serious concern over the course of the presidential campaign
in Ukraine. "Unfortunately, with six weeks to go until the polling day there
are all the signs that the upcoming election will not meet these democratic
criteria," the diplomat's statement said. -30-
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3. CANADIAN AMBASSADOR CRITICAL OF UKRAINE POLITICS
ACTED ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM OTTAWA
Agency France-Presse (AFP), Montreal, Canada, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
MONTREAL - Canadian Ambassador to the Ukraine Andrew Robinson,
reprimanded by Ukrainian authorities for criticizing irregularities in the
campaign for next month's presidential election, was acting on instructions
from Ottawa, the Canadian Foreign Ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Reynald Doiron confirmed that Robinson had been
summoned to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in Kiev following the
publication Tuesday of an interview in which he estimated that campaign
irregularities could lead to the presidential election being undemocratic.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry told the ambassador it believed his
statements not to be objective, the Interfax news agency reported. A
Canadian diplomatic source in Ottawa noted that Canada was part of a
group of 25 representations in Kiev that are closely following the Ukrainian
election campaign, including the United States, Britain, Germany and the
European Union.
The group has met twice with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn
Gryshchenko, urging him to work for a more equitable election campaign,
said the source.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and former prime minister
Viktor Yushchenko are running in the October 31 election to replace
President Leonid Kuchma, who has to step down after 10 years in office.
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4. CANADA SERIOUSLY CONCERNED THAT COMING UKRAINIAN
ELECTIONS WILL FAIL TO MEET DEMOCRATIC STANDARDS
Declaration by Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine, Andrew Robinson
MAPLE LEAF NEWS, Vol. 16
E-zine published by the Canadian Embassy in Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
KYIV - Canada is seriously concerned that the forthcoming Ukrainian
elections will fail to meet democratic standards. This was conveyed in a
declaration released to the press by the Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine,
Andrew Robinson, on September 21. The full text of the declaration is as
follows:
The forthcoming Presidential elections in Ukraine represent an opportunity
for Ukraine to demonstrate respect for the values which characterize
democratic countries. Among these the holding of free and fair elections,
which give the people of the country an opportunity to choose for themselves
who will exercise authority, is sacrosanct. If the forthcoming Ukrainian
presidential elections are free and fair, those exercising authority
subsequently will do so with credibility and legitimacy. The converse, of
course, is also true.
Regrettably, with less than six weeks remaining in the election campaign,
there are indications that the forthcoming elections will fail to meet these
democratic standards. In particular we are concerned about lack of balance
in the reporting of the State Television channel, UT-1, the marked lack of
objectivity on the part of government officials, and harassment of certain
media.
We urge the Ukrainian authorities to take action to address these lacunae
now so that Ukraine's election meets international standards. This might
take the form of the immediate exercise by the State Television Channel,
UT-1, of the strictest objectivity with regard to reporting on the
activities and campaigns of the candidates, the ending of the practice of
instructions to the media, (temniki) and a clear directive to all national,
regional and local officials that strict objectivity is required by
Ukrainian law in the performance of their duties during the electoral
campaign and on voting day.
It is Canada's view that such changes could make a significant contribution
to the way in which the elections are conducted in the final weeks of the
campaign, and therefore, to the way in which the results are perceived
internationally. -30-
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For more information, please contact: Press office; Embassy of
Canada, 31 Yaroslaviv Val Street; Kyiv 01901 Ukraine,
tel. 464-1144/204-3269, www.kyiv.gc.ca
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5. CANADA SPOKE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND HAS THE RIGHT TO DO SO
Canadians should be angry about the way Ukraine has acted in response
COMMENTARY, Inside Ukraine Newsletter
Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, September 23, 2004
KYIV - The Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine, Andrew Robinson,
issued a short statement in Kyiv on Tuesday about Canada's concerns
that the forthcoming Ukrainian presidential election will fail to meet
international democratic standards. The statement urged Ukrainian
authorities to take action to address the real serious issues addressed
in the statement.
The statement by Canada brought up similar concerns that have been
expressed openly and widely by many democratic nations and by all
international and Ukrainian independent election monitoring organizations.
Canada is to be congratulated and supported for making such a fair,
honest, open and sincere statement.
On Wednesday the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called Canadian
Ambassador Robinson in and strongly reprimanded him for the statement.
This action and the statements by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry are
shocking and very alarming.
One would have expected such an action by the Foreign Ministry of the
Soviet Union twenty or thirty years ago but not by the Foreign Ministry
of a free, independent, and supposedly democratic Ukraine.
All Canadians and especially the tens of thousands of Ukrainian Canadians
should be very angry and up-in-arms about such shoddy treatment
Canada and its Ambassador to Ukraine, Andrew Robinson, have received
from the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. They should not sit idly by and let
Ukraine get by with such classic Communist inspired Soviet Union type
behaviour.
All Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine around the world, including high-
level representatives of the United States, countries in the European
Union, and other democracies should also object strongly to this type
of treatment of Canada by Ukraine. Canada spoke the absolute truth
about the presidential election process in Ukraine and has the absolute
right to do so.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said the statement was out of line with
Canada's interest in developing ties with Ukraine in the spirit of
partnership, mutual trust and respect. Quite the opposite is true.
Ukraine was totally out of line in reprimanding Canada in light of
Ukraine's stated interest in developing ties with Canada and other
democratic nations in the spirit of partnership, mutual trust and respect.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said such a statement gives it reason to
doubt that Ambassador Robinson informs his government about the real
situation in Ukraine in an objective manner. This statement sounds exactly
like one made in recent weeks by Soviet KGB trained Russian President
Vladimir Putin about all the ambassadors of democratic nations who
speak out about the violation of democratic principles in Russia and
Ukraine.
It is not surprising that it did not take long for the Canadian Foreign
Ministry to react to Ukraine and state strongly that its Ambassador to
Ukraine was acting on instructions from Ottawa. The Ministry said
the Ambassador was acting on behalf of the nation of Canada, not on
behalf of himself. The Canadian Foreign Ministry is to be congratulated
for having its Ambassador make such a statement about the forthcoming
Ukrainian presidential election and for coming to his defense quickly.
The Ukrainian Canadian community should immediately indicate their
support for the stand taken by the Canadian government and should also
let their friends in Ukraine know how they feel about the shoddy way
Canada has been treated by the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. This type
of Soviet style treatment needs to stop. Ukrainian Canadians can help.
Interested persons can communicate with the Canadian Ambassador to
Ukraine, Andrew Robinson, by sending e-mails for him to Inna Tsarkova,
Political/Economic Program Officer, Canadian Embassy in Kyiv,
inna.tsarkova@dfait-maeci.gc.ca. Faxes can be sent to the Embassy
at 380 44 464 1133 and 380 44 464 1131. Letters can be sent to:
Ambassador Andrew Robinson, Embassy of Canada, 31 Yaroslaviv
Val, Kyiv, Ukraine 01901. The Embassy website is www.kyiv.gc.ca.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs can be contacted at: H.E.
Kostyantyn Hryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine,
1, Mykhailivska sq., Kyiv, Ukraine 01018.
Phones: +38 (044) 226 3379, 226 3169
E-mail: zsmfa@mfa.gov.ua; URL: http://www.mfa.gov.ua -30-
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6. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA LAMBASTES WORLD
PRESS OVER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE
World does not pay attention when USA and G7 fail to meet obligations
Expresses bewilderment at criticism over use of administrative pressure
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
PAVLOHRAD - Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has complained of
"immense pressure" on Ukraine ahead of the presidential election [scheduled
for 31 October]. Answering questions from journalists in Pavlohrad
(Dnipropetrovsk Region) today, Kuchma said that the Ukrainian elections
are second only to the war in Iraq in international news.
"Find a single positive article about Ukraine. Immense pressure is being put
on Ukraine, on the Ukrainian leadership. One gets the impression that if an
opposition candidate fails to win, on the very next day the elections will
be proclaimed not transparent and dishonest," Kuchma said.
He expressed his surprise over the unprecedented attention to the Ukrainian
elections. Kuchma wondered why the world does not pay as much attention
to the US failure to meet its obligations regarding the destruction of solid
nuclear fuel at the Pavlohrad chemical factory or to the G7 failure to meet
their obligations regarding the completion of the construction of power
units at the nuclear plants in Rivne and Khmelnytskyy after the Chernobyl
closure.
Kuchma also noted that the world disregards the fact that obligations given
to Ukraine after it withdrew from a nuclear plant construction project in
Iran have not been met either. "But the world keeps silent. So who has
temniki [coverage instructions allegedly sent to the Ukrainian mass media
by Kuchma's administration]?" Kuchma said.
He also expressed bewilderment at the criticism of the Ukrainian authorities
regarding the use of administrative pressure. "This game of administrative
resource. This is no game, this is pressure," he said. "The prime minister
[Viktor Yanukovych], who represents the authorities, is a presidential
candidate. So should the vertical power structure (of the executive -
Interfax) hide somewhere and keep silent, saying we did not do anything?
Tell me please what is that? Is this objectivity or is it some other thing
and which goals are being pursued in this respect?"
"Let us decide our fate on our own. We shall find a solution," Kuchma
stressed. -30-
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7. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT WARNS OF "DIRTY" ELECTION
RAPS INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE
One Plus One TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] According to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma,
Ukraine follows Iraq in Western media coverage. Speaking in Pavlohrad
[Dnipropetrovsk region], he said the Ukrainian leadership is coming under
great pressure in connection with the presidential election. He warned that
this election would be the most dirty in Ukraine's history.
Kuchma believes that the current political problems are rooted in the
absence of political reform [which was proposed by Kuchma and which
the opposition views as an attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule.]
[Correspondent] The mutual responsibility of the legislative and the
executive should be stipulated by the constitution, the president said,
commenting on the recent migrations in parliament.
[Kuchma] Believe me, the current situation in parliament does not surprise
me at all. Quite a logical process is going on. First, the constitution
makes no mention of a majority or a parliament-government coalition. All
of you know well that this has been proposed by the Ukrainian president.
I just believe that these are the principles on which parliament and the
cabinet should work.
[Correspondent] Kuchma said that he feels that Ukraine is coming under
great pressure in the run-up to the presidential election.
[Kuchma] Could you find a single positive press article on Ukraine today?
Ukraine and its leadership are just coming under violent pressure. I have
already said that one gets an impression that unless an opposition candidate
fails to win, on the very next day the election will be declared
non-transparent and unfair and so on.
[Correspondent] The president also repeated that the presidential election
would be the most dirty in independent Ukraine's history.
[Kuchma] Virtually all presidential candidates are pretending that they are
electing the monarch of all-Ukraine, that there is no constitution which he
should follow, that there is no cabinet with which he should work and that
there is no parliament.
[Correspondent] The president was speaking at the Pavlohrad chemical
plant where solid missile fuel from the scrapped SS-24 missiles is kept.
[Passage omitted: Ukraine will process the missile fuel on its own - see
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian 1242 gmt 22 Sep 04.]
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8. UKRAINE TO DESTROY SOLID MISSILE FUEL WITHOUT
HELP FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Kuchma says their strategic partner, the USA, duped Ukraine on this matter
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
KIEV - Ukraine is going to complete destroying solid missile fuel at the
Pavlohrad chemical factory without US assistance within three years. "Our
task is to complete this process within three years," [Ukrainian President]
Leonid Kuchma said, speaking in an interview with journalists at the
Pavlohrad chemical factory [in Dnipropetrovsk Region] today.
Kuchma said it would be possible for Ukraine to destroy the fuel within the
named period. "Such a possibility does exist. The factory's managers and
the institutes studying this problem say so," Kuchma said. He said the USA
refused to assist Ukraine in destroying missile fuel at the Pavlohrad
chemical factory by using the hydrowashing method.
"It is already a historical fact that does not need confirmation that our
strategic partner, the USA, duped us on this," he said. Kuchma added that
the method that the USA proposed for destroying the fuel would be a "big
problem" for the environment. "Our partners looked at this from a different
angle - they do not want to give us technology, as this would make it
possible to use the fuel again," Kuchma said.
"For this reason our decision is simple - we shall continue destroying it
according to this method," he said. Kuchma said that the Cabinet of
Ministers allotted necessary funds for this at its meeting today. Also the
state budget for next year provides for "an appropriate sum necessary for
completing this programme", he said.
Solid fuel from Ukraine's intercontinental ballistic missiles RS-22 is
stockpiled at the factory in Pavlohrad. [Passage omitted: the fuel is to be
eliminated] Solid nuclear fuel destroying at the Pavlohrad chemical factory
was envisaged by a Ukraine-US agreement of 1993. [Passage omitted:
background]
In early 2003 the USA stopped financing the project and suggested, during
several rounds of negotiations, destroying the fuel by open burning or open
blasting. [Passage omitted: Ukraine deliberates what to do with the fuel]
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9. GEORGIA, UKRAINE URGE EUROPEAN UNION TO EXPAND
INTO FORMER SOVIET STATES, VIEW SUPPORTED BY POLAND
Barbara Borst, AP Worldstream, New York, NY, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
NEW YORK - The foreign ministers of Georgia and Ukraine on Wednesday
urged the European Union to develop a wider vision for the future that
encompasses EU membership for countries from the former Soviet Union.
Their counterpart from Poland, one of 10 Eastern and Southern European
nations that joined the EU in May, championed their cause. The EU's
"European Neighborhood Policy" offers close ties, but not membership, for
nations such as Ukraine and Georgia.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko said he hoped Polish
support for eastern countries seeking closer EU ties would encourage some of
the union's older member states to embrace further expansion eastward. "We
believe today the European Union is very much concerned with its internal
problems. Those issues are important, but not of the visionary type," he
told The Associated Press.
Georgia's Foreign Minster Salome Zourabichvili said there may be "a lack of
vision, but it's not static." Two years ago, the EU was not interested in
the region, she said, but now it has begun to think about what relations it
wants. "As soon as you start asking questions, you start finding solutions,"
said Zourabichvili, who was a French diplomat for 30 years, including
France's ambassador to Georgia, before returning to Georgia. "I pleaded at
our last meeting with the EU, telling them we are their new neighborhood,"
she told The AP.
Poland's Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said his country strongly
opposes claims by some in the EU that the former Soviet countries have no
chance of joining. "Poland is going to continue its pressure for an open
door policy," he said in an interview.
The three foreign ministers, who were in New York for the annual two-week
meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, also addressed business leaders at a
Wednesday morning meeting sponsored by the U.N. Development Program
and the Business Council for the United Nations.
UNDP administrator Mark Malloch Brown said he hoped for dramatic
progress in Eastern European and former Soviet countries, if leaders
make changes to their political and economic systems. He said he believes
the region "can be liberated without the heavy lifting required for poor
countries."
Kalman Mizsei, director of the UNDP's bureau for Europe and the
Commonwealth of Independent States, said the world "actively
discriminates against this region" because of a misconception that it isn't
really poor. Yet, it includes some of the lowest income countries in the
world, such as Tajikistan, with per capita gross domestic product of
US$200-US$300 per year, and Kyrgyzstan with US$400 per year.
Although some countries' economies are growing rapidly, the benefits are
concentrated in a few hands and poverty is increasing. Ukraine, with the
world's fastest growing economy at 13 percent, needs to strengthen its
democratic institutions, Mizsei said, adding that it is in the EU's "vital
interest" to help Ukraine gradually integrate with the rest of the
continent.
"Georgia is the most democratic and the most pluralistic of all the CIS
countries" yet remains very poor, Mizsei said. Zourabichvili, Georgia's
foreign minister, said her country could become a bridge between Europe
and Russia. As for the EU's program for limited ties with Eastern Europe,
Georgia would like "to make it something it was not supposed to be _ an
active first step to adhesion," she said.
Poland's Cimoszewicz said some would-be member states may not recognize
the work involved in adapting to EU standards; Poland had to pass more than
a thousand new laws. The EU, too, needs a little time to adjust to its
expansion in May from 15 to 25 members. "The last enlargement caused fears
on both sides," he cautioned. "Yes, we need some time to absorb what has
happened. Ordinary people need to become convinced not by words but by
everyday (acts) that it is working." -30-
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10. PROSECUTOR GENERAL HENNADII VASYLIEV TO
RESIGN AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, September 22, 2004
KYIV - Ukraine's Prosecutor General Hennadii Vasyliev intends to
tender his resignation after the presidential election. He disclosed this
intention to journalists. "I will resign whoever would win," he said.
Vasyliev noted that he does not cling to his seat. He also said he had
not yet decided what he was going to do after resignation. As Ukrainian
News reported, the presidential election will take place on October 31.
President Kuchma appointed Vasyliev to the post of Public Prosecutor
General in November 2003 with the Verkhovna Rada's approval. From
May 2002, Vasyliev was first deputy parliament speaker.
In 1997-1998, he was the prosecutor of Donetsk region. According to
the Constitution, the President appoints the Prosecutor General with the
Rada's consent. -30-
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11. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT DISMISSES DEFENSE MINISTER
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
KYIV - President Leonid Kuchma has dismissed Defense Minister Yevhen
Marchuk for unsatisfactory performance in the area of reprocessing of
ammunition. Kuchma announced this to journalists in Pavlohrad
(Dnipropetrovsk region).
"I have accepted the resignation of Marchuk. To delay or practically openly
sabotage the process... playing some kind of games, I do not understand
that," he said.
According o Kuchma, there enterprises operating in Ukraine are capable of
jointly reprocessing 50,000 tons of ammunition per year, including 25,000
tons at the Pavlohrad chemical plant. He criticized the defense Ministry for
operating these enterprises at low capacity.
"Reprocessing is the issue number one. In this case, things are not being
done in the way in which they need to be done..." Kuchma said. Marchuk,
63, has headed the Defense Ministry since June 2003.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Kuchma reprimanded Marchuk in
August for unsatisfactory implementation of his directive on
demilitarization, ecological enhancement, and further economic, social,
and cultural development of the area around the Balaklava Cove in
Sevastopol.
In June, Kuchma also reprimanded Marchuk for serious shortcomings in his
work and warned him that he bore personal responsibility for the state of
explosive arsenals, bases, and depots. A fire started at ammunition depots
containing about 4,500 wagons of artillery shells near the village of
Novobohdanivka (Zaporizhia region) on May 6, causing detonation of the
ammunition stored at the depots. About 6,000 people were evacuated from
11 nearby population centers because of the fire. -30-
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12. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE YUSHCHENKO
POISONED BY RICIN ACCORDING TO LEADER OF UPP
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 22 Sep 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
KIEV - The Ukrainian presidential candidate [leader of the centre-right
People's Strength coalition] Viktor Yushchenko has been poisoned by ricin,
a substance used by special services in special operations, Yuriy Kostenko,
the leader of the Ukrainian People's Party [UPP] and a member of the
coordination committee of the People's Strength coalition, has said,
commenting live on the attempt on Yushchenko's life to Radio Liberty.
Speaking about the substance by which Yushchenko was poisoned,
Kostenko said the following: "We already know the type of poison, it is
called ricin. This is a substance that special services use in special
operations," UNIAN has learnt at the UPP's press service. "We know
when and how this happened and who was behind it," Kostenko added.
"I only want to say one thing that we know. To our great regret, this
attempt to kill Yushchenko, which failed, does not stop the so-called
'crisis' spin doctors and they will try to make an attempt again," Kostenko
said. [Passage omitted: Kostenko comments on other issues]
[On 10 September Yushchenko was admitted to a clinic in Vienna, where
he was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis with several complications caused
by chemical poisoning. Yushchenko returned to Ukraine on 17 September.
He blamed the authorities for his poisoning, addressing parliament
yesterday.] -30-
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13. "RUSSIA, PUTIN AND DEMOCRACY"
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: Jane's Intelligence Digest
Coulsdon, Surry, United Kingdom, Friday, September 24, 2004
As reported in last week's JID, Russian President Vladimir Putin is
preparing to launch a major shake-up of Russia's political system in the
wake of the recent school siege in Beslan. As our regional correspondent
reports, the proposed 'reforms' can be expected to lead to further
re-centralisation of power to the Kremlin, as well as a significant blow to
the country's infant democracy.
Although he has finally been forced to admit his administration's almost
complete failure in tackling the threat posed by Chechen militant groups,
the president's current strategy appears to centre on convincing a Russian
domestic audience that he is still a strong leader who is capable of
imposing a military solution in the Chechen conflict. At the same time, he
is pushing ahead with proposals that are unlikely to have much impact on
terrorism, but which are intended to reinforce the Kremlin's grip on power
and the positions of the so-called siloviki ('men of power') who comprise
Putin's inner circle of former KGB officials and military chiefs.
In the past, Russian and Soviet administrations have taken advantage of a
variety of domestic crises to undermine, marginalise - and even criminalise
- political opponents. Arguably, Russia's most effective period of
democratisation and pluralism came during the immediate post-Soviet era
when the central administration of former president Boris Yeltsin was at its
weakest. However, critics of this period - particularly Russian nationalists
- regard the Yeltsin years as an era during which Russia's influence abroad
was weakening. Those blamed include the powerful oligarchs who embraced
the economic revolution that followed the collapse of the Soviet system, as
well as pro-Western 'liberal' politicians.
In many respects, the timing of Putin's latest proposals is impeccable.
There is a rising tide of popular anger towards those responsible for the
massacre at Beslan and it is likely that measures such as the direct
presidential nomination of regional governors will not greatly trouble most
Russians. Given the president's approval ratings - which remain high
according to recent opinion polls - and the absence of an effective
political opposition in Russia, the introduction of party lists for
elections to the Duma is likely to meet with minimal resistance. However,
there are concerns that these and other 'reforms' currently being proposed
will undermine Russia's fledging democracy without bringing any improve-
ment in domestic security.
Critics point to the president's own recent admission that his
administration has "achieved practically no visible results in our fight
against terrorism" as evidence that re-centralisation of power and the
increasing influence of the intelligence services within Russia are not
delivering in terms of domestic security. Although there is widespread
anger over the 330 deaths at Beslan, it has so far tended to be directed at
the hostage takers and the local security services. However, some degree
of political damage is inevitable unless the Kremlin can make good Putin's
repeated promises to crackdown against domestic terrorism and this will
involve far more than rounding up illegal migrants from Chechnya and
Dagestan.
One area in which Putin and his inner circle have made significant progress
is in limiting criticism of Russian policies within the domestic media.
Kremlin hardliners have long blamed the 'liberal' Russian broadcast media
for undermining attempts to impose a military solution in Chechnya,
particularly during the first Chechen war (1994-1996).
Negative news coverage during the sinking of the submarine Kursk in
August 2000 threatened to tarnish Putin's own first term as Russian
president. As JID noted at the time of the disaster, "Putin provided the
unedifying spectacle of a Soviet-era bureaucrat caught in the unwelcome
glare of negative publicity" (see JID 1 September 2000). It proved to
be a hard lesson well learned.
In the years since Russia's media pilloried the new president for preferring
to stay on holiday rather than return to Moscow during the Kursk drama,
major changes have taken place. Few broadcasters dare to criticise the
president directly and media independence in Russia is practically a thing
of the past. JID's Russian sources warn that in the absence of serious
debate in the domestic media, criticism of Putin's latest political
proposals are likely to come mainly from within the country's political
think-tanks and research institutes. Many of these maintain close links
with foreign groups and according to well informed sources, the Russian
intelligence services - backed up by the tax authorities - are actively
monitoring these organisations and their activities.
Criticism of Putin's domestic policies, the Kremlin's failing strategy in
Chechnya or recent authoritarian 'anti-terrorism' measures are likely to
result in the harassment of those non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
perceived to be 'unpatriotic' or that receive funding from abroad. JID's
sources in Moscow have provided a list of groups likely to be targeted
in a forthcoming crackdown against those regarded as a threat to Putin's
administration.
As JID has highlighted in previous issues, there is also a strong likelihood
of further arrests and prosecutions of Russian researchers, analysts and
journalists following the jailing of Igor Sutyagin a nuclear specialist who
received a 15-year prison sentence earlier this year for his involvement
with foreign consultancies (see JID 16 April 2004). A number of Russian
specialists, particularly those involved in international research projects
with military or defence elements are either planning to leave the country
or, in a few cases, have already departed, a trend which seems set to
continue. -30-
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14. GONGADZE'S WIDOW MAKES STATEMENT ON GRANTING
IMMUNITY TO PRESIDENT KUCHMA AFTER HE LEAVES OFFICE
COMMENTARY by Myroslava Gongadze
Institute of Mass Information, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, Sep 22, 2004
On Thursday 23 September 2004 The Parliament of Ukraine is going to
debate the bill which must provide guarantees to the President Kuchma
after he leaves his office. I suppose such a bill is barefaced disdain of
the primary of the Law and lack of respect to those who died because of
the orders given from the Presidential office. The aim of this immunity is
to permit to the president Kuchma to avoid being accounted for committed
crimes.
The president Kuchma and his milieu has always acted in the absolute
impunity, while persecuting its political opponents and murdering non-loyal
journalists. Even now, they feel themselves unpunished, by making political
and physical pressure onto the opposition leaders and by this depriving us,
Ukrainian citizens of our right to make a choice. They are going to legalize
the impunity of the President.
The members of the Parliament who will vote to grant lifelong immunity to
the President, will become accessories of the number of crimes committed
by Kuchma during his rule. And those ones who think by rendering such a
guarantee to Kuchma they will make him give up the authority peacefully,
they are wrong, because in such a way they give carte blanche to him if he
wishes ensure the win of his protégé at presidential election.
The constitution of Ukraine is guarantying the equal rights of all Ukrainian
citizens before the Law. To grant extra guarantees of lifelong impunity to
the President is offence to the Fundamental Law which is Constitution.
This bill will break principal democratic principles of the civil
responsibility of the authorities. Finally, this perpetual immunity of
Kuchma will ensure the situation where the Ukrainians will lose the
possibility to obtain justice in their own state, the society will lose
possibility to get to know the truth.
To debate the immunity for president after his mandate is over one can only
in the case if the president has acknowledged his part of implication, his
fault in numerous crimes against its proper citizens. Till he does not admit
his guilt I will press for making him account for murder of my husband and
journalist Georgiy Gongadze. I will defend the rights of those who had
become victims of this regime. -30-
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15. ANTI-SEMITISM IN UKRAINIAN MEDIA UP, AND ITS
ACCEPTANCE IS WORRYING JEWS
By Vladimir Matveyev and Walter Ruby
Global News Service of the Jewish People
JTA, New York, NY, Sunday, Sep 19, 2004
KIEV, Ukraine - One of Ukraine's most powerful politicians has
refused to denounce a leading Ukrainian newspaper for publishing a
virulently anti-Semitic article asserting that 400,000 Jews joined the S.S.
during the Nazi invasion of Ukraine in 1941.
In an exclusive interview with JTA, Aleksandr Moroz, leader of the
Socialist Party of Ukraine and a candidate for president in elections
scheduled for Oct. 31, said he was in no position to determine the veracity
of the notorious opinion piece in Silski Visti, or Village News. "I have
defended Silski Visti and will continue to do so," Moroz said. "I personally
think the argument of the author of the article, Vasily Yaremenko, citing
400,000 Jews in the S.S. is incorrect, but I am not in a position to know
all the facts."
Moroz's comments, along with statements by other leading Ukrainians,
indicate a worrisome acceptance of a surge of anti-Semitism in the mass
media as Ukraine gears up for the elections. Although Moroz is unlikely to
win the election -- he is currently drawing about 10 percent of the vote --
his refusal to condemn Silski Visti is significant because he is a respected
figure here who has led the charge in accusing the government of corruption
and complicity in the murder of an opposition journalist.
The article, "Jews in Ukraine Today: Reality Without Myths," was published
last fall as a paid advertisement in the newspaper, which with 500,000
readers is one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, in an interview with JTA, the paper's editor, Vasily Gruzin,
defended the newspaper's decision to publish the piece. "Although we
published the Yaremenko article as a paid advertisement and not as a
position we ourselves endorsed, I happen to believe the figure of 400,000
Jews taking part in the German invasion of the Ukraine is not far from the
truth," he said.
"I personally have nothing against common Jews, but rather against a small
group of Jewish oligarchs who control Ukraine both economically and
politically. I believe the point of Zionism today is Jewish control of the
world, and we see this process at work in Ukraine today."
Not long after the Yaremenko article appeared, Moroz, Victor Yuschenko --
a pro-Western presidential candidate who is believed to be favored by the
Bush administration -- and another prominent opposition leader, Yulia
Timoshenko, issued a statement headed "Hands Off Silski Visti," opposing
an effort by the government to shut down the newspaper on grounds of
inciting ethnic discord. The statement further cited the need for freedom of
the press from government control.
With a few exceptions, nearly all of the mass media here are tightly
controlled by the government of President Leonid Kuchma, who balances
between Russia and the U.S. and has allowed Jewish life here to flourish. At
present, the government's case against Silski Visti is being considered by
an appeals court and the newspaper continues to publish three times a week.
Following the opposition leaders' statement, an outcry from Jewish community
leaders spurred Yuschenko to issue a statement criticizing the Silski Visti
article as anti-Semitic and urging the newspaper to apologize, which Gruzin,
the paper's editor, has ruled out.
Nevertheless, many Jews remain concerned about Ukrainian nationalism and
anti-Semitism in both right- and left-wing opposition parties and appear to
be leaning toward supporting Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, a protege
of Kuchma, in the elections. This comes despite the government's tendency
toward repressing opposition media and political parties and frequent
allegations of its involvement in mafia-like business activities.
The wave of anti-Semitic agitation in the Ukrainian media began in 2002 with
the publication of defamatory articles in the magazine Personnel, published
by the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, a university-like
institution offering leadership training to 35,000 students on more than 10
campuses across the country.
Although the school's board includes such respected figures as former
President Leonid Kravchuk and former Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk,
its academic leaders have taken a strongly anti-Western political line,
fostering close ties with Russia and the Islamic world. The academy's
president, Georgi Schokin, has addressed three conferences in Saudi
Arabia, and the American anti-Semite David Duke has appeared at
three of the school's conferences in Kiev.
The Interregional Academy, which financed Silski Visti's publication of
Yaremenko's article as a paid advertisement, has published his books and
aggressively promoted his writings. The school's rise has come during a
period in which the Kuchma government has sought to promote a positive
image in the West, even as official relations with the United States have
deteriorated.
At the same time, there has been an ongoing attack by government agencies
on freedom of speech in Ukraine, with the secret services and tax police
exerting pressure on many editors and journalists who do not toe the
government line. Silski Visti is one of the few largest publications to have
consistently criticized the government -- which was the reason cited by
Yuschenko, Timoshenko and others for their initial defense of the paper.
Some in the Jewish community here believe that the rise of the Interregional
Academy has been covertly engineered by Kuchma's government as a means
to discredit the opposition as nationalistic and anti-Semitic. At the same
time, they acknowledge that the opposition, including the Ukrainian
intelligentsia, has played into the government's hands by not more
forthrightly denouncing the academy and Silski Visti.
According to Josef Zissels, chairman of the Va'ad of Ukraine, a leading
Jewish organization, it is important to understand that the school was
created by prominent representatives of the Ukrainian authorities, which
now try to present the situation as though it is part of the opposition. "I
think this is a provocation by the government," he said.
Semyon Gluzman, a Jewish intellectual who heads the Ukrainian-American
Bureau for the Protection of Human Rights, commented that, although
Moroz is at fault for not criticizing Silski Visti, "We intellectuals are
also guilty for not speaking out sooner."
Late in 2003, the Ukrainian Anti-Fascist Committee, then headed by
Alexander Shlayen, a prominent Jewish community leader who died here
suddenly last month, sued Silski Visti in a Kiev district court for inciting
ethnic discord. It was widely assumed Shlayen acted with the encouragement
of the government. On Jan. 28, 2004, the court ruled that Silski Visti
should be shut down for inciting ethnic discord, but the paper has yet to be
closed.
Edward Dolinsky, executive director of the United Jewish Community of
Ukraine, accuses both the government and the opposition of tolerating open
displays of anti-Semitism here. He asserted that his organization has
"appealed to both the president and prime minister many times to state
categorically that there is no place for anti-Semitism in Ukraine in the way
Chirac did recently in France. But they have not done so."
Dolinsky granted that Ukraine's deputy minister of foreign affairs made a
statement condemning anti-Semitism at the Berlin conference on anti-Semitism
hosted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, but said
the government fails to speak clearly on the issue to its own population
here at home. However, he added, the opposition is even worse on
anti-Semitism.
Evheniy Chervonenko, a prominent Jewish member of Parliament who is
supporting Yuschenko's election, expressed concern that the efforts to close
down Silski Visti could backfire on the Jewish community. "The problems of
anti-Semitism cannot be solved by closure of one newspaper. I believe the
court decision on the closure of Silski Visti is an accurately planned
provocation of people who work against Our Ukraine in the Administration of
the President of Ukraine." However, Chervonenko believes that "anti-Semitic
publications in the large-circulation newspaper should be barred and from
this point of view the decision of the court can be considered just."
Zissels, who has been critical of the government on the issue of
anti-Semitism, pointed out that scurrilous anti-Jewish newspapers, pamphlets
and books including "Mein Kampf" and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
are being sold openly on Kiev's main square every day by nationalistic
vendors under the watchful eyes of the police. "Unfortunately, there is
little evidence to indicate that the authorities are serious about a
struggle with anti-Semitism," Zissels said. "Their decision to go after
Silski Visti is clearly connected with the fact that it is the largest
opposition publication." -30-
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