Counting of votes on electronic data of the Central Election Commission ends. At this point, the Commission processed 99.95% of the ballots.
As before, the leader Viktor Yanukovych. He has 35.33%. in second place – Yulia Tymoshenko with more than 25 percents. Last in the trio of leaders – Sergei Tigipko wiyh a little more than thirteen percents. Fourth and fifth place rank Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Viktor Yushchenko – nearly seven and five and a half percents.
In the meantime, the CEC has received reports of fresh seals. Only after their calculation of the CEC may declare official result of the first round of elections. However, as of 13 hours of CEC was data from 21 polling station.
Andrew Maher, Vice-Chairman of the CEC: “The biggest – Kirovograd region – 101 electoral districts. There are seven such stations. Vinnytsia Oblast – 124 districts, three election station. Cherkasy oblast – 3 station. As to foreign county – there are 5 stations.
The European Commission for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, asked Ukraine to give up visa requirements for Romanians and Bulgarians, in order to help the adoption of the special visa regime between the European Union and Kiev, according to Mediafax, quoting the Ukrainian News Agency online.
The commissioner added however that the EU is not conditioning Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organisation on the elimination of visa …
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News on terrorist act in Beirut on 19 of September of 2007, which caused victims among civil population, in particularly member of Lebanese parliament Antoine Ghanem, was received in Ukraine with deep concern, according to the MFA press-service.
Ukraine is strongly condemning a practice of political killings and terrorist attacks in Lebanon and hopes that Lebanese people will not be provoked and will not allow deepening of internal political …
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A Ukrainian citizen was killed in an automobile accident on the Antalia-Belek road in Turkey in September 7.
The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
According to the statement, the Ukrainian citizen worked as a guide for a tourist agency.
His body is scheduled to be sent to Ukraine in a coffin on September 10.
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