Posted on 01/09/2005 11:52:26 AM PST by Destro
Withdrawing Ukraine troops from Iraq priority, Yushchenko says
Posted: Sunday January 9,2005 - 11:02:59 am
KIEV (AFP) - The winner of Ukraine's presidential vote Viktor Yushchenko said that withdrawing the nation's troops from Iraq will be a priority for him once he takes office, after an accidental blast killed seven Ukrainian soldiers there.
"Viktor Yushchenko sends deep condolences to the families of Ukrainian peacekeepers who died in Iraq Sunday," said a statement released by his press office late Sunday.
"Insofar as withdrawing Ukraine's peacekeeping contingent from Iraq, it remains one of Yushchenko's priorities once he assumes office," the statement said.
The seven Ukrainian troops, along with one Kazakh soldier, died after a bomb they were about to defuse went off accidentally in Iraq's central Wasit region, where Ukrainian and Kazakh troops serve under Polish control, Kiev's defense ministry said.
Another seven Ukrainian and four Kazakh troops were injured as a result of the accident, which occurred at 12:05 pm after a team of Kazakh sappers and their Ukrainian backup had brought back for defusion some 35 aerial bombs that Iraqi police had found stashed near the central military base of As Suwayrah.
After the bombs were unloaded from their transport vehicles one of them exploded for reasons that are still being investigated, the ministry said.
Some 1,600 Ukrainian troops have been deployed since August 2003 in Iraq's Wasit region where US-led coalition forces are under Polish command.
Prior to Sunday's deaths, Ukraine has lost nine of its troops, with another 20 injured.
In the heat of Ukraine's election saga in December, parliament in Kiev approved a resolution that demanded outgoing President Leonid Kuchma withdraw Ukrainian soldiers from Iraq.
I am a Polish American Republican, LOL, and think your posts have been great anonymoussierra!
Good post, I see a real battle brewing between the US and the EU. No wonder leftist pinheads like the EU so much.
THAT IS VERY INTERESTING.....
Did you know Yushchenko's wife is from Chicago and worked in the Reagan Administration?
"I was under the impression Eastern Orhodox was a subset of Christianity?"
Actually, the Orthodox churches are the original Christian Churches.
The Church of Rome broke off 1000 years ago and the Protestan churches broke off from the Roman Church 500 years ago.
For 1000 years AD, the Church of Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, etc were all "Orthodox" or "original" and equal.
"jb6" do not atack me, I do know what you write, I will atack you in history information do not do that Thank you!!
The criteria for the US should be whether a country/candidate is pro-US or not.
"Funny how many "conservatives" here supported anti-Iraq and pro EU Yushchenko over outgoing PM Viktor Yanukovych who along with President Kuchma sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq. But old outdated Cold-War emotions and religious hatred of Eastern Orthodox can be easily manipulated."
Destro,
Copme now, you are too smart to know that there are two Ukrainian Orthodox Churches that did not support Yanukovich and that it was only the Moscow Church that openly prostituted themselves as the lapdogs of Putin and Yanukovich.
There is no hatred of Orthodoxy - only a hatred of the KGB filled Moscow Church that had the audacity to parade around as supporters of Putin's boys.
"I wasn't refering to you. If you are GROM or any Polish military, you are military. I was referring to Luskoz and the other 2, at least 2 of whom admitted to working for the EU directly." OK jb6 not all persons like "EU" in Europa. In my country I do not like "EU" I do not like what it is. I do know this East Ukraine West Ukraine is Uraine country, Ukraine persons vote, that is Ukraine persons, my husband is in GROM. I do not want war in Ukraine country. I do not want Moskwa in Ukraine!!! I do not want my country in Ukraine!!! I do want Ukraine persons in Ukraine country!!! I do know we do know what is good what is not good. Ukraine is Ukraine Thank you.
""Priority one is the free exercise of democracy" Thank you"
AMEN :)"Thank you :}}}}}}}}
"I wasn't refering to you. If you are GROM or any Polish military, you are military. I was referring to Luskoz and the other 2, at least 2 of whom admitted to working for the EU directly."ok (Niech ktos mi cos napisze, bo mnie trafia parodia luszczycy, albo w misji cos sie przeksztalcilo, albo cos strarcilam w wersji Opola, albo w wersji bajek w paradoksji zycia bez opony mozgowej, na razie) Thank you
In my country I do not like "EU" I do not like what it is.
On this I stand with you.
I am not EUFacist ok do not write that ok I do want strong Ukraine country I do not want war. I do know Lukasz;lizol is not "EU" persons that persons is good. That persons do know what is good. Thank you
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"The criteria for the US should be whether a country/candidate is pro-US or not."
In that case your name should be "strangeopinion".
I certainly do not believe that those of us who understand and value what freedom or liberty are about or what they are worth feel that way.
It's what I would expect as a KGB concept, though.
Constantine accepts the Church 313 AD.
The final Schism between the Roman and the Eastern Orthodox occured in 1054.
Oh, yeah, Jesus started the Apostolic Succession with Peter, Peter being the head of the Church of Rome. The Eastern Orthodox revisionism doesn't make it true.
Thanks for the quote. Some would take Yushchenko out of context if not for it. BTW both sides would like to appeal to their electorate and eventually withdraw. Here's Kuchma's newly appointed defense minister Aleksandr Kuz'muk back in Spetember.
Kuz'muk is endorsed by Yanukovich.
The old "Do as we say, not as we do." approach to foreign relations.
Not much of a student of history, are ya?
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