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Itar-Tass January 30, 2010 Ukraine’s ‘orange’ govt pursued policies people disliked - Yanukovich DONETSK: Ukraine’s presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich appeared on television Friday evening to declare that the country’s authorities over the past five years pressed ahead with a policy an overwhelming majority of the people neither supported nor understood. In the first place Yanukovich said he had in mind the official policy towards Russia. “Everybody was perfectly aware that if and when we arouse distrust of such partner as Russia, we shall have to brace only for negative effects. Including those in relations with the European Union,” Yanukovich said. In his opinion, Ukraine’s default on its liabilities, its authorities’ default, to be more precise, caused distrust on both sides. “What is it the ‘orange’ authorities have achieved? When we had gas for 49 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters, we were saying it’s too expensive. Now we buy gas for 360 dollars and say that this price is unique. Pipelines bypassing Ukraine have begun to be laid. Nobody has invited us to join in. In the meantime, we can offer pipes and compressor equipment. We could have been full-fledged participants in those projects,” Yanukovich believes. He recalled that back in 2004 his government had drafted a project for an international gas consortium that would pump through Ukraine’s pipelines twice the amount of gas going through it today. =========================== 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. ==============================
