"Earlier Tuesday, Mr. Yushchenko was forced to cancel his state of the union speech in Parliament because opposition lawmakers physically occupied the rostrum where Mr. Yushchenko would have stood; others hung posters on the walls protesting the president’s support for joining another Western group, NATO. The speaker removed the state of the union speech from the day’s agenda, and the presidential press service said it would be rescheduled. Mr. Yushchenko then flew directly to Geneva to sign the trade pact deal without delivering the speech."




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