Posted on 11/22/2004 7:37:04 AM PST by Truth666
Senator Richard Lugar, the senior US observer of the Ukrainian presidential elections says that the incumbent Government helped rig the vote in favour of the pro-Moscow Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich.
"It is now apparent that a concerted and forceful program of election-day fraud and abuse was enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental authorities," Mr Lugar, the chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters.
"I believe that President (Leonid) Kuchma has the responsibility and the opportunity for producing, even at this point, an outcome which is fair and responsible."
With votes counted from 99.14 per cent of polling stations, Mr Yanukovich, had secured 49.42 per cent of the vote, compared with the 46.69 per cent of Western-leaning Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
I take it Jimmy Carter wasn't present at this one?
Soros was preparing the revolution this time
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1108874/posts?page=107
Curtain falling on stage - no more need for actors
http://www.mindfully.org/WTO/2003/George-Soros-Statesman2jun03.htm
Lugner calling Kuschma to cancel the election - Kuschma has two alternatives : follow in the footsteps of Jelzin Ocotber 1999 or follow these calls ...
both ways the nuclear clock advances, the question is only the difference in advance between both alternatives
U.S. Threatens Punitive Steps Over Ukraine Election
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=G2QUOCDLTC0TUCRBAEKSFEY?type=topNews&storyID=6888788
According to the State Department, Washington budgeted some $143.47 million in aid for Ukraine for the year that ended on Sept. 30, including $61.98 million for security and law enforcement, $34.11 million for democracy, $42.38 million for economic and social reform and $5 million for humanitarian and other aid.
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