Incumbent President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has said that at present the Russian Federation will not cooperate with Ukraine on the case of his poisoning in 2004 when he was a presidential candidate.
"I don’t expect anyone will close this case, but obviously the Russian side still will not have any [desire] to cooperate on this case," the president said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
He said that everything depends on how much Russia is ready to fulfill its obligations.
According to Yushchenko, while the three main persons involved in the investigation on the case of his poisoning are citizens of Russia, and until they give evidence to representatives of the investigation, "this case will remain in the same state as it is at present."
At the same time he noted that the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies conducted a "brilliant investigation" into this case.
As reported, on September 5, 2004, then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko was taken ill after having dinner with the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine. He was hospitalized in Vienna on September 10.
Doctors said Yuschenko had been poisoned with dioxin. Moreover, they said the poison had been administered five days before his hospitalization.
After that, a number of medical tests were conducted. An examination conducted late in May 2006 confirmed the presence of dioxin in Yushchenko’s body.
The Ukraine’s president claimed an MP from the OU-PSD faction, David Zhvania, was involved in his poisoning in 2004. Then in 2008, Zhvania said that Yushchenko hadn’t been poisoned.
In September 2009 reports appeared in the mass media that challenged the results of the official investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General’s Office, which earlier found that Yuschenko was intentionally poisoned with dioxin.
