Ukraine President-elect Yanukovych to be sworn in on February 25
KIEV. February 17. KAZINFORM Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday passed a resolution, which set Feb. 25 for the inauguration of President-elect Victor Yanukovych; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The resolution was backed by 238 MPs, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
Ukraine's Central Elections Commission (CEC) declared Yanukovych winner of the presidential election Sunday.
A final count of the votes showed Yanukovych defeating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by 3.48 percent points after the Feb. 7 presidential runoff.
NATO and the United States, the traditional supporters of the " Orange camp" brought to power by the 2004 "revolution" spearheaded by Tymoshenko, have congratulated Yanukovych on his election.
However, Tymoshenko on Tuesday filed an appeal to the Higher Administrative Court against election results, saying she had evidence of fraud in the runoff.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have declared the elections "professional, transparent and honest" in a joint statement with other international observers.
A Ukrainian electoral official told Xinhua earlier this week that Yanukovych's victory was "unassailable," though it was won by a small margin; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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