12/14/2004 | Реєстрація ЦВК:

Біотероризм в Україні - жахлива новина для безпеки в Європі,
достойний подарунок від клубу колишніх ядерних шантажистів.

Як не сумно констатувати факт, але найбільше "досягнення" за останні 10 років відходячого в небуття історії попереднього президента - то легалізація біотероризму в 21 сторіччі. Підручники по боротьбі з тероризмом закарбують ім'я з згадкою біотерористичної атаки на політичного опонента.

Які наслідки для майбутнього України може мати покривання біотероризму минулими і сучасними урядовими чинниками, які підписуючи угоди про нерозповсюдження та невикористання зброї масового ураження та будучи саме "гарантом" нерозповсюдження ядерного та біологічного тероризму в Центрі Європи в 21 сторіччі сприяли біотероризму ?

Європа налякана загрозою біотероризму в Україні.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1264421.htm

EU says Yushchenko diagnosis 'very disturbing'

The European Union says anyone found to have deliberately poisoned Ukrainian Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko must face justice.

Doctors at a Vienna clinic said that Mr Yushchenko, who is seeking to win a December 26 re-run of a rigged presidential poll, had been the victim of dioxin poisoning but were unable to say whether it was the result of a deliberate act.

"This is the work of the government," Mr Yushchenko said upon his return to Kiev from an Austrian clinic, where doctors confirmed for the first time that he had swallowed relatively huge amounts of the toxin that can cause cancer and death.

"If the prosecutor general keeps to the law and acts accordingly, then soon Ukraine and the whole world will find out who did this," said Mr Yushchenko, who underwent a new round of tests at the clinic over the weekend.

Emma Udwin, external affairs spokeswoman for the EU Commission, said: "The news from Vienna is very disturbing.

"It's also clear that if there has been a case of deliberate poisoning, then those who are responsible must be brought to justice."

She told a regular news briefing that an existing EU "action plan" for developing closer ties with the former Soviet republic included strengthening institutions to deliver the rule of law.

Mr Yushchenko will be running against Viktor Yanukovich, who had initially been declared the winner of the presidential poll before the result was overturned by the Supreme Court.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has been one of the main international mediators seeking to help end the ensuing political crisis over the past weeks.

-Reuters/AFP

Біотероризм та Українська політика - історичні паралелі.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=592525

A story of power and poison is now etched on the face of Ukraine's hero
By Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev
13 December 2004


It is difficult to believe that poison is an ingredient of modern politics in a country that aspires to join the European Union. Yet the grey and ravaged face of the Ukrainian opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, provided ghastly testimony yesterday that such sinister methods are still part of the 21st century political arsenal.

Seated in a Vienna clinic where he underwent blood tests, Mr Yushchenko thanked his doctors, who confirmed over the weekend that he had been poisoned by massive amounts of the industrial toxin dioxin.

The swollen blisters that have disfigured his face were caused by 1,000 times the normal level of dioxin in his body, said Dr Michael Zimpfer, the director of the Rudolfiner clinic that treated him. "If this dose had been higher, it may have caused death," he said.

Some of Mr Yushchenko's closest associates have privately blamed the poisoning on the Kremlin which fears that he will remove Ukraine from Moscow's influence.

Yet as prosecutors in Ukraine reopened a criminal investigation into his illness, which struck after he dined with a senior member of the Ukrainian intelligence service, Mr Yushchenko refused to renew those accusations. "I don't want this factor to influence the election in some way - either as a plus or a minus," he said. "This question will require a great deal of time and serious investigation. Let us do it after the election."

With Ukraine about to rerun a vote expected to propel him into the presidency, Mr Yushchenko prefers to look to the future as he returns to the campaign trail.

The controversial run-off vote, which has now been annulled by the country's supreme court amid allegations of ballot-rigging, led to his rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, being briefly declared president of Ukraine.

But the confirmation of the poisoning is likely to lead to further speculation that the Kremlin was involved. It also gives credence to rumours that Russian special forces had been sent to the capital, Kiev, and then hastily withdrawn.

Ukraine's strategic importance is such that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in favour of Mr Yanukovych, who wooed the Russianised east of the country with pledges to make Russian a second state language and to offer dual citizenship.

A leading member of Mr Yushchenko's coalition, MP Yuriy Pavlenko, voiced the suspicion, held by many of his colleagues, that Russian intelligence was involved in the poisoning. "I was always convinced this was poisoning and an attempt on Yushchenko's life," he said.

Ukrainian intelligence services have said that they have no chemical or biological facilities and that during the Soviet era, when they were part of the KGB, specialised products of that sort were provided by Moscow.

There are historical precedents. Soviet intelligence agents were responsible for the shooting in a Paris church in 1924 of the leader of a short-lived Ukrainian state, Symon Petlyura. Ukraine's most prominent post-war nationalist leader, Stepan Bandera, was assassinated in Munich in 1959 by a pistol firing a poisonous mist which brought on a heart attack.

Mr Yushchenko, according to his friends, has coped well with the nightmarish illness. Much of the time he has received painkillers from a semi-permanent intravenous device while addressing his supporters.

Yesterday he was resolutely upbeat as he declared: "The government that has been in power for the last 14 years is now in its final days. I think it would be appropriate to compare this to the fall of the Soviet Union or the fall of the Berlin Wall."