UKRAINIAN POWER AGREEMENT WON’T END KIEV TUG OF WAR.

The Ukrainian parliament’s willingness to grant Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma’s demand for more powers in exchange for the president’s willingness to drop plans for a referendum June 28 is unlikely to end the struggle between the parliament and the president. While Kuchma has been given broad powers to issue decrees, name a cabinet and appoint regional officials–as reported by Kiev radio June 7–he has committed himself to the drafting of a new Ukrainian constitution within a year. That process will inevitably reunite the political fight between the two sides even if economic reforms now take off.

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