UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY CHAIRMAN FACES DISMISSAL MOTION.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 103

At an agitated session of the Ukrainian parliament yesterday, 171 out of the 422 deputies endorsed a motion to put the removal of Oleksandr Moroz as chairman of the legislature on the agenda. A vote on the motion, which was spearheaded by reformists, was postponed owing to lack of a quorum. Moroz, of the Socialist Party, opposes market reforms and came out last week against NATO enlargement. President Leonid Kuchma is known to favor his removal as parliament chairman. (Interfax-Ukraine, May 28. See also "News and Perspective" section below)

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