Yanukovich Says Parliament Will Be Blocked Until NATO Letter Scandal Resolved
KIEV, Ukraine -- Opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovich said the Verkhovna Rada’s work might continue to be blocked until the scandal that erupted after the parliament speaker had signed an appeal for Ukraine’s accession to the NATO membership action plan was resolved.
“Negotiations will have to be held on this issue,” Yanukovich said on Saturday.
He condemned the fact that the top three persons in the country – the president, the prime minister, and the parliament speaker – had asked the NATO Secretary-General to admit Ukraine to the membership action plan “stealthily from society, the state and people”.
Yanukovich believes that “such decisions should be made openly and discussed nationwide”.
He noted that the general public had learned about the letter from U.S. Senator Richard Lugar. “Now state officials of such level must come out and explain to the people why they did it,” Yanukovich said.
On Friday, MPs from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party blocked the Verkhovna Rada’s work for a week and demanded that parliament speaker Arseny Yatsenyuk withdraw his signature from the appeal to the NATO Secretary-General.
In the letter, the president, the prime minister, and the parliament speaker asked the NATO leadership to include Ukraine in the membership action plan at the Alliance’s summit in April 2008 in Bucharest.
The opposition was outraged by the fact that the parliament speaker had signed the letter without consulting the lawmakers.
The scandal has been further fanned up by the fact that the appeal to the NATO Secretary-General was first mentioned by U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, after which the presidential secretariat had to announce the document.
Many political scientists and opposition politicians believe that “the appeal was prepared in Washington, not in Kiev”.
The Ukrainian foreign minister has already brought the letter to Brussels.
Source: ITAR-TASS
posted by Nicholas @ 12:03 AM
1 Comments:
Dick Lugar is probably the dimmest senator from the United States. I does not surprise me that he opened his dimwitted mouth about anything, and thereby messing with some other countries politics.
If we had it his way we would be involved in even more countries and policing more foreign lands and loosing more of our young men to stupid intrusive polices.
this is his policy directly from his web site.
The Lugar Doctrine is: the United States will use all of its military, diplomatic and economic power – without question – to ensure that life threatening weapons of mass destruction everywhere are accounted, contained and hopefully destroyed. Additionally, the Lugar Doctrine asserts that the U.S. should encourage democratic institutions and decrease dependence on foreign energy sources
He needs to get those teeth fixed he looks like a beaver.
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