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TORONTO – The UkrainianCanadian Congress bestowed its high-est honor – the Taras ShevchenkoMedal – on Canada’s prime minister,Stephen Harper, at a tribute dinner onOctober 14 attended by almost 600 of members of the Ukrainian Canadiancommunity.“Today we want to thank and recog-nize Prime Minister Stephen Harperfor his dedication to public service, forhis leadership and in particular to theoutstanding contribution he has madetowards the development of the
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WASHINGTON – Vitali Klitschko, bet-ter known as the heavyweight boxingchampion of the world, visited the U.S.capital in his recently acquired new –political – role in life, as the leader of theUkrainian Democratic Alliance forReforms (UDAR) party.His October 11-12 visit here began onthe day a Kyiv court sentenced Ukraine’sopposition leader and former prime min-ister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years inprison for abuse of power in signing anexpensive natural gas deal with Russia.This development heightened the inter-est to his discussions of Ukraine’s politi-cal and economic reform issues at twoWashington think tanks and with con-gressional leaders interested in Ukrainedeveloping into a Western-oriented dem-ocratic and free-market country.In response to a question about theTymoshenko sentencing during a discussionat the Brookings Institution, Mr. Klitschkocalled it another example of the “slide back”from the democratic development inUkraine, and added that the Yanukovychadministration now is trying to find somekind of an acceptable resolution to it.The court system, like the other partsof Ukraine’s government, are corrupt, Mr.Klitschko said, adding that politiciansand other officials – at all levels – makepromises to get into power and then act in their own self-interest.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper (left) receives the Taras Shevchenko Medalfrom Ukrainian Canadian Congress President Paul Grod.
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Vitali Klitschko with Ukrainian American community leaders who accompanied himto the Taras Shevchenko monument in Washington, Andrew Futey (left), executivevice-president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and MichaelSawkiw, director of the Ukrainian National Information Service.
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PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The EuropeanUnion on October 18 abruptly canceled aplanned visit by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych following the sen-tencing a week earlier of former PrimeMinister Yulia Tymoshenko to sevenyears’ imprisonment followed by threemore years’ prohibition against holdingoffice.Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman forEU’s foreign policy chief, CatherineAshton, said Mr. Yanukovych’s visit would take place when “conditions willbe more conducive to making progresson bilateral relations.”Mr. Yanukovych was scheduled tomeet with EU president Herman VanRompuy and European Commissionpresident Jose Manuel Barroso onOctober 20. The talks were to focus on anAssociation Agreement between Ukraineand the EU, as well as a free trade pact.EU-Ukrainian relations were strainedby the sentencing of Ms. Tymoshenko forabuse of power in connection with a con-tract she signed with Russia’s Gazpromin 2009. The EU, which along with theUnited States said the case was politicallymotivated and an example of selectiveprosecution in Ukraine, said it wanted tosee “progress” on Ms. Tymoshenko’s situ-ation and the rule of law in Ukraine.The Associated Press reported that the postponement of Mr. Yanukovych’svisit to Brussels came after there wereindications from Kyiv that Ms.Tymoshenko would not be quicklyreleased based on legal amendments tothe law that would turn her misdemean-or from a criminal offense to a mildereconomic violation. Party of Regionsnational deputies refused to considersuch a bill on the morning of October 18and the president himself indicated in aninterview with U.S. and European news-papers that passing those legal reformswould take time.“If the EU is not ready for one reasonor another, or Ukraine is not ready, thedecision can be made not now but later,when we are ready,” he was quoted assaying by The New York Times onOctober 17. “We are open to discussion,but I do not have the right to stand in forthe Ukrainian court of law. The court isindependent and makes its own deci-sions. We cannot very quickly changelaws which have been in force in Ukrainefor more than 50 years.”In addition, Mr. Yanukovych was quot-ed by The Times as saying that the newcriminal case opened on October 14 by
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Yanukovych: no grounds to delay EU pact
KYIV – Ukrainian President ViktorYanukovych has said that he sees nogrounds to delay the signing of anAssociation Agreement between Ukraineand the European Union. He announcedthis in an interview with one of the leadingGerman newspapers, FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung, on October 19. “It isimportant for us to sign the associationagreement, which contains clear EU mem-bership prospects for Ukraine. If the EU isnot prepared for this or we’re not preparedfor this, then this decision cannot be maderight now, but only when both sides areprepared for this. Today we at least havepolitical will for this. We also feel that theUkrainian people want this. Therefore, wecurrently see no grounds to delay this mat-ter,” Mr. Yanukovych said. The president promised to do everything he can “toensure that this agreement contains a pas-sage about [Ukraine’s] future EU member-ship.” When asked whether the signing of the agreement with the EU could fail due tothe case of former Prime Minister YuliaTymoshenko, the president said: “I’m not clairvoyant nor a prophet. We are in theprocess of discussions that will continue.All points of view have a right to be heardand to be respected. However, we often get the impression that others simply don’t want to listen to what we have to say. Thedebate concerning the Tymoshenko case isactually far from being completed.” OnOctober 17, Mr. Yanukovych said in aninterview with Bloomberg News that Kyivwas ready to move the signing of theAssociation Agreement and the creation of a free trade area with the EU to a later dateif European leaders are not ready for this inconnection with the “Tymoshenko case.” It was planned that the agreement on associ-ation and the creation of a free trade areawould be finalized in December and ratifiednext summer. The European Commissionannounced on October 18 that theUkrainian president’s visit to Brussels,which was scheduled for October 20, hadbeen postponed until a later time whenconditions are more suitable to continuenegotiations on the association agreement.The Ukrainian opposition described thecancellation of the president’s visit toBrussels as backsliding on Ukraine’sEuropean integration. (Ukrinform)
Tymoshenko sued in three more cases
KYIV – On October 18, Yulia Tymoshenkowas interrogated in the case concerning thedebts of United Energy Systems of Ukraine(UESU) to the Russian Ministry of Defense,Procurator General Viktor Pshonka told apress briefing on October 19. He said that the pre-trial investigation of the case isbeing conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), while the Main Directorateof the Procurator General’s Office (PGO) isoverseeing compliance with the law duringthe investigation. As for resolutions by ex-Procurator General Sviatoslav Piskun on theclosure of similar cases against Ms.Tymoshenko in 2005, these documentsrequire more detailed legal evaluation.“Following this assessment it will be possi-ble to say whether those decisions werelegal or illegal,” Mr. Pshonka said. Regardingtwo other cases against Ms. Tymoshenko,Ms. Pshonka said investigations into theacquisition of ambulances and the diversionof funds received under the Kyoto Protocolhave been completed and Ms. Tymoshenko’slawyers are getting familiar with these crim-inal cases. There are no new cases in whichMs. Tymoshenko would be a defendant, thePGO said. Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court sentenced Tymoshenko on October 11 toseven years in prison for abuse of power insigning gas agreements with Russia. OnOctober 12, the SBU filed against the ex-pre-mier a new criminal case for imposition of the corporate debt of UESU on theUkrainian budget. (Ukrinform)
Ukraine and Russia sign agreements
KYIV – A number of new bilateral agree-ments were signed during the secondUkraine-Russia Interregional EconomicForum in Donetsk on October 18, whichwas attended by President ViktorYanukovych of Ukraine and President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia. The parties
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Eurasia Daily Monitor
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – the rul-ing United Russia party’s official candidatefor re-election as president for a third six-year term next March – recently publisheda major policy article in the Izvestiya daily.Mr. Putin announced a long-term strategyto build a Eurasian superstate within theboundaries of the former Soviet Union,called the Eurasian Union.According to Mr. Putin, the new unionwill eventually replace the present CIS(Commonwealth of Independent States),formed in 1991 after the demise of theUSSR. To begin with, a Customs Union wasestablished between Russia, Belarus andKazakhstan. Next January it will be upgrad-ed to the Common Economic Space (CES),allowing the free flow of goods and servic-es. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are seeking tojoin the customs union and CES, accordingto Mr. Putin. The doors will be open forother CIS states to join.The existing union state between Russiaand Belarus and the Collective SecurityTreaty Organization (CSTO) defense orga-nization (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan andTajikistan) will supplement the drive forintegration. Mr. Putin believes the reinte-gration of the post-Soviet space will bemuch faster than in Europe through theEuropean Union (Izvestiya, October 3).Former Kremlin political adviser GlebPavlovsky told journalists he “could not remember a single election after 1996where the president failed to promise torestore the Soviet Union” (Kommersant,October 5).Liberal commentator Dmitry Oreshkintold Ekho Moskvy that Mr. Putin’s policyarticle is just another empty election mani-festo to placate the masses still nostalgicabout the great Soviet empire. He notedMoscow’s failure to move beyond emptydeclarations in establishing a union statewith Belarus or to woo the supposedly pro-Russian Ukrainian President ViktorYanukovych into joining the Customs Unionor CES. Mr. Oreshkin believes that byannouncing the plan to build the newEurasian Union, Mr. Putin is cynically “put-ting up a smokescreen to hide his failures”(Ekho Moskvy, October 4).Mr. Putin stressed the new EurasianUnion “will not be a reincarnation of theUSSR,” but failed to explain the difference indetail. Mr. Putin’s press secretary DmitryPeskov stated: “The establishment of theEurasian Union will be one of Putin’s mainpriorities in the coming six years [after pres-idential re-election].” Mr. Peskov explainedthat the member-states of the new unionwill retain political sovereignty, “while themanagement of their economies must befully integrated” (Kommersant, October 5).
Putin prioritizes rebuildingof the lost (Soviet) empire
by Erica Marat
Eurasia Daily Monitor
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putinis yet to win the presidency formally next year, but he has already laid out ambitiousforeign policy plans in regard to formerSoviet states, Russia’s “traditional sphereof influence,” as the Kremlin often definesit. In his recent op-ed piece in Izvestiya,Vladimir Putin proposed deepening theintegration of former Soviet states withina newly proposed Eurasian Union (www.izvestia.ru, October 3).Mr. Putin sees the Eurasian Union as anextension of the CIS and the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union,arguing that it will be a long-term project that intends to function independent of political regime changes in its memberstates. Mr. Putin also pledges that the newunion, “connecting Europe and the Asia-Pacific region,” will promote the develop-ment of domestic industries and expandtrade ties between its members.The Russian leader, however, deniesthat the new union will be a mere resto-ration of the USSR. Instead he comparesthe potential union with the EuropeanUnion’s Schengen zone and promisesthat labor migrants would be free tomove across borders without having tomatch their skills to existing migrant quotas in Russia. Europe needed 40years to integrate, while the CustomsUnion requires much less time to gaintraction, he says.For Mr. Putin, the Customs Union’smain architect, the grouping has alreadybecome an instrument of both regionaland international politics. Union member-ship is regarded as an indicator of politicalalignment with and support of theRussian leadership in the post-Soviet space. Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistanare being pressured to join the club.Moscow easily convinced Belarus andKazakhstan to support the idea of a com-mon market. The isolated Belarusianeconomy is deeply dependent on Russiancredits, and President AlyaksandrLukashenka’s domestic political support is contingent upon his relations with hismuch larger neighbor.For Kazakhstan, on the other hand, theCustoms Union is more a symbol of goodneighborly relations with Russia ratherthan of economic integration. UnlikeBelarus, Kazakhstan’s biggest trade part-ner continues to be the European Union,and the country is also expanding its eco-nomic cooperation with China and theUnited States. Kazakh experts, however,link 12 percent inflation in the countryover the past few months with the unionagreement.By contrast, Ukraine’s current pro-Moscow leadership has been reluctant tojoin Mr. Putin’s project as a full member,proposing collaboration with the union ina special “3+1” format. President ViktorYanukovych has said that Ukraine is inter-ested in collaborating with the union, but full membership would undermine thecountry’s current benefits derived fromserving as a transit state for Russian gas(www.rbc.ua, August 26). RussianPresident Dmitry Medvedev rejected the
Putin attempts to reinvent Customs Union as Eurasian bloc
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OSCE
VIENNA – The OSCE representative on
freedom of the media, Dunja Mijatović,
said on October 6 that the Ukrainian andinternational media should have accessto information about the ongoing trialrelated to the murder of Ukrainian jour-nalist Heorhii Gongadze in 2000.“Unfortunately, the trial that hasresumed today remains closed to themedia. This raises concerns about trans-parency. In my September 13 letter tothe Ukrainian authorities, I emphasizedthe importance of free reporting in this‘case of the decade.’ All the circumstancessurrounding the cruel murder of HeorhiiGongadze should become known andpublic officials implicated should not beshielded using secrecy arguments.Gongadze’s colleagues and family
deserve this,” said Mr. Mijatović of the
Organization for Security and Cooperationin Europe (OSCE).“I accept that some court proceed-ings require the protection of confiden-tial data related to national security. But the fruitless efforts of the last decade tofind the instigators of this killingrequire the judiciary to show maximumopenness at this final stage to ensurethe credibility of the final verdict,” said
Mr. Mijatović.
The OSCE representative emphasizedthat only vocal and resolute responsesfrom governments to violence against journalists, bringing both perpetratorsand instigators to justice, could relievemedia from fear when reporting on sen-sitive issues of public interest.
OSCE media freedom rep urgesfull transparency in Gongadze trial
FOR THE RECORD
The following statement was released by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America on October 13.
The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America strongly condemns the newcharges brought against Ukraine’s formerPrime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by theSecurity Service of Ukraine (SBU).This Soviet-style smear campaign is atransparent attempt by the Yanukovychregime to counter the international com-munity’s universal condemnation of thePechersky Court’s October 11 ruling.Furthermore, the Yanukovych regime isclearly trying to deflect world attentionfrom its own anti-democratic practices andpolitically motivated prosecutions. TheUkrainian Congress Committee of Americacalls upon the world community to reject these allegations as vociferously as it didthe Pechersky Court ruling and to continueto push the ruling regime in Ukraine toadhere to the rule of law and internationalstandards.The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America reiterates its call upon the gov-ernment of the United States to takeappropriate measures to support democ-racy and human rights in Ukraine. Weurge the United States government torestrict visas and freeze assets of the cur-rent anti-democratic regime and to holdcongressional hearings on sanctions andfuture foreign assistance to the govern-ment of Ukraine.
UCCA condemns “smear campaign”
of Yanukovych against Tymoshenko
NEWS ANALYSIS: Yanukovych determined not to let Tymoshenko go
by Oleg Varfolomeyev
Eurasia Daily Monitor
Contrary to expectations of manyobservers both at home and abroad,Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovychhas failed to instruct a Parliament loyal tohim to decriminalize the offenses withwhich former Prime Minister YuliaTymoshenko had been charged. Rather, helooks determined to keep her behind bars.A court in Kyiv has sentencedTymoshenko to imprisonment for herrole in the controversial 2009 gas dealwith Russia. What is more, in spite of abarrage of criticism from the West andRussia, and threats from the EuropeanUnion to freeze the association and freetrade talks which are close to comple-tion, another criminal case has beenopened against Ms. Tymoshenko.President Yanukovych looks set to sacri-fice good relations with neighbors inpursuit of his goal to eliminate Ms.Tymoshenko from the parliamentaryelection race next year.The Pechersky District Court in Kyiv onOctober 11 sentenced Ms. Tymoshenko toseven years in prison for exceeding herauthority in preparing the January 2009gas contract with Russia. The court alsoobliged Ms. Tymoshenko to reimburse theequivalent of almost $190 million in dam-ages from the contract to the national oiland gas company Naftohaz Ukrainy. Thishappened just a day after the EU foreignpolicy chief, Catherine Ashton, had con-firmed at the EU Foreign Affairs Councilthat Ms. Tymoshenko’s imprisonment could prompt national legislatures toblock an EU-Ukraine association and freetrade accord, which the two sides plannedto conclude in December (UkrainskaPravda, October 11).The United States, the EU and Russiaexpressed disappointment with the ver-dict. The European Commission issued astatement warning that it could affect thetalks with Ukraine and bilateral coopera-tion in general. European People’s PartyPresident Wilfried Martens, who has beenTymoshenko’s main supporter in the EU,suggested that the EU should withdrawfrom the talks (UNIAN, October 11).Mr. Yanukovych, commenting on theverdict while on a visit to Slovenia, said it was due to outdated legislation whichshould be changed shortly so that it shouldbe in line with legal norms accepted in theEU. He added that the verdict was not finaland that Ms. Tymoshenko should appeal,and he admitted that Ms. Tymoshenko’simprisonment could complicate Ukraine’sintegration into the EU (Ukrainska Pravda,October 11).This was probably interpreted inBrussels as readiness to compromise anddecriminalize the article under which Ms.Tymoshenko was convicted (see EurasiaDaily Monitor, October 5). Accordingly, onOctober 12, Ms. Ashton told the EuropeanParliament that the EU should continuetalks with Ukraine despite the odds(Ukrayinska Pravda, October 13).However, on October 13, the SecurityService of Ukraine (SBU) made it clear that Mr. Yanukovych’s intentions were misin-terpreted and that Ms. Tymoshenko couldbe imprisoned for something that hap-pened in 1996 even if she had been pro-nounced innocent as far as the 2009 dealconcerned.
Most member-countries of CIS sign up to free-trade zone
RFE/RL
Years of fruitless negotiations to create afree-trade zone among the members of theCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)unexpectedly came to a successful conclu-sion on October 18, when Russian PrimeMinister Vladimir Putin appeared beforejournalists in St. Petersburg, Russia.“The heads of the delegations have hadlengthy discussions today and reached arather unexpected result,” Mr. Putin said. “Wediscussed [a free-trade agreement], madesome corrections and adopted its final text.”Mr. Putin was participating in a regulargathering of CIS prime ministers that alsoincluded heads of government fromArmenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine.Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan are also CISmembers, while Turkmenistan has observ-er status. Those three countries have askedfor a few weeks to consider joining thefree-trade agreement that the other mem-bers signed.Moldovan Deputy Economy MinisterOctavia Calmac contradicted Mr. Putin incomments to RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service,saying the agreement was preparedmonths ago.“In fact, we wrapped up negotiations inMay. But the deal wasn’t signed then becausesome Asian members of the CIS had somedisputes, and they were given a six-monthbreak to resolve them,” Mr. Calmac said.“We’re talking about the same countries that didn’t sign the treaty [in St. Petersburg].”
Step forward
Mr. Putin hailed the free-trade decision asa key step forward in the economic develop-ment of the region.“We are opening up our markets to eachother, which means that goods will bebrought to our markets at lower prices,which will in turn provide better conditionsfor starting new joint enterprises,” Mr. Putinsaid. “All of this, of course, increases the com-petitiveness of all of our economies.”Under the agreement, import and export duties on most categories of goods will beeliminated, although Mr. Putin said therewill still be unspecified exceptions. Theleaders expressed the hope that the agree-ment will come into force in January.CIS leaders first signed a protocol on afree-trade zone in 1994, and promises tosign a final agreement have been regularfeatures of CIS summits since the early2000s. For example, then-UkrainianPresident Leonid Kuchma told journalistsin May 2003: “I am sure we will sign theagreement in September.”Mr. Putin also stressed that the new free-trade arrangement does not conflict withany obligations under the World TradeOrganization (WTO), which Moscow hopesto join in the near future.“The establishment of a free-trade zonein no way contradicts the principles andnorms of the WTO,” he said. “Moreover,some of the countries that signed today’streaty – namely Kyrgyzstan, Armenia,Ukraine and Moldova – are already mem-bers of the World Trade Organization.”
Hinder further integration
However, there have been concerns that such arrangements within the CIS could hin-der the efforts of countries such as Ukraineand Moldova to further integrate with theEuropean Union. Ukraine is in the final stag-es of negotiating a Deep and ComprehensiveFree Trade Area (DCFTA) and an AssociationAgreement with the EU, although the statusof those agreements is in doubt followingthe October 11 conviction of former PrimeMinister Yulia Tymoshenko on abuse-of-office charges that many in the West view aspolitically motivated.Moldovan Deputy Economy MinisterCalmac agreed that the Petersburg agree-ment does not contradict his country’sWestern integration strategy. However, headded that Chisinau has no intention of joining the Russia-Belarus-KazakhstanCustoms Union.“It is not possible for Moldova to be in acustoms union with CIS countries and, at thesame time, continue to work for economicintegration with the EU’s common market,”Mr. Calmac said. “These are opposing thingswith totally conflicting consequences.”Prime Minister Putin has made the clos-er integration of the CIS a major theme inrecent weeks since it became clear that heintends to return to the Russian presidencyin 2012. In an article published in Izvestiaon October 4, Mr. Putin advocated the for-mation of a Eurasian Union, which hedescribed as “a powerful, supranationalbody.” He said such a union would be part of a “greater Europe” with shared values of “democracy and market laws” that wouldfacilitate its members’ closer integrationwith the European Union.In an article in Germany’s“Sueddeutsche Zeitung” back in 2010, Mr.Putin argued for a free-trade zone span-ning “from Lisbon to Vladivostok.”
Written by Robert Coalson, with agency reports.Copyright 2011, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW,Washington DC 20036 (see http://www.rferl.org/content/cis_putin_free-trade_ zone/24364420.html).
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