- Title: UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT MEETING CANCELLED AFTER BLOCKADE BY OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS
- Date: 30th December 2004
- Summary: (W3)KIEV, UKRAINE (DECEMBER 29, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE EXTERIOR OF GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN KIEV/ SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO OUTSIDE MAIN ENTRANCE TO OFFICES; OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS WITH FLAGS AND AND BANNERS; OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS ALLOWING JUNIOR CIVIL SERVANTS TO ENTER BUILDING 2. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN COMMEN
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- Location: KIEV, UKRIANE
- Country: Ukraine
- Reuters ID: LVA6C7YRJTYKCFEZMPCQOATSK4SN
- Story Text: Ukraine government meeting cancelled after blockade
by opposition supporters.
Ukraine's government decided not to meet at its
headquarters on Wednesday (December 29, 2004) after demonstrators
massed outside to prevent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich
from entering.
"Today there will be no government meeting in this
building," cabinet secretary Anatoly Tolstoukhov told
reporters at the building's main entrance.
Hundreds of protesters massed outside the building at
the behest of liberal Viktor Yushchenko, winner of last
Sunday's re-run of a rigged presidential election.
Yanukovich, his opponent, has refused to concede defeat.
"We will let government workers in," said one of the
organisers of the protest. "But we will not let Yanukovich
in. He will not be able to conduct a meeting."
A dozen buses were moved into position to block the
entrance and large crowds of demonstrators were headed to
join the protest.
A tent camp in support of Yushchenko was set up
opposite the building the previous day, with demonstrators
pounding steel drums.
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