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Interfax-Ukraine November 19, 2009 Ukraine expecting new US ambassador Tefft to come to Kyiv soon Ukraine is expecting new ambassador of the United States, John F. Tefft, to arrive in Kyiv soon, Deputy Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Yeliseyev told Interfax-Ukraine. "The U.S. Senate [Foreign Relations] Committee has approved his candidacy and we are expecting him to arrive soon," the deputy minister said. The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry explained the agency that after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves the ambassador's candidacy, the Senate is to confirm the appointment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=21693 Civil Georgia November 19, 2009 Georgian, Ukrainian Presidents Meet in Kiev Tbilisi: President Saakashvili, who is paying a two-day working visit to Ukraine, held talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Victor Yushchenko, on November 19. “For us the relations with Georgia are extremely important and sensitive....We know how difficult it is to ensure the establishment of national sovereignty, and implement key state principles, beginning with territorial integrity. We are always together with Georgia in these and other questions,” Victor Yushchenko said, according to the Ukrainian president’s press office. President Saakashvili praised Ukraine’s support to Georgia, adding that his visit to Ukraine was “a good opportunity” to discuss issues important for both countries, according to the same report. During the visit President Saakashvili is also expected to participate in the ceremony of opening a new building for the Georgian Embassy in Kiev. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/25529/ Interfax-Ukraine November 19, 2009 Poll suggests Yanukovych would win runoff against Tymoshenko If Party of Regions Leader Viktor Yanukovych and Ukraine's incumbent Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko go to the presidential elections' runoff, the former is more likely to win. This follows from the results of a public opinion poll held by the Institute for Social and Political Psychology and presented by the institute's director, Mykola Sliusarevsky, at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday. A total of 1,998 respondents in all the regions of Ukraine, Crimea and Kyiv were questioned for the opinion poll on November 1-7, 2009. The margin error is 2.2%. If runoff was held between Yanukovych and Tymoshenko, the Regions Party leader would get 41.5% of the vote and the premier, 37.2%, the poll showed. Should the Font for Change Leader Arseniy Yatseniuk and Tymoshenko be contending in the second round, Tymoshenko would get 36.8%, Yatseniuk 24.2%. In the pair Yanukovych versus Yatseniuk, the former would win with 44% against 23.7%. At the same time, more than a quarter of respondents (25.7%) still haven’t decided whom they will support in the presidential elections runoff, Sliusarevsky said. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ==============================
