President Viktor Yuschenko intends not to deliver his annual speech to the Verkhovna Rada and Ukrainian people about internal and external state of Ukraine since it was published in the Uriadovyi Kurier newspaper.
Deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat Oksana Sliusarenko has announced this at a news briefing.
"This means that this year Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko will not pronounce his speech right in the parliament hall," she noted.
Sliusarenko underlined, Yuschenko does not take the refusal from delivering the speech directly to the Verkhovna Rada as his defeat.
"President is higher than personal resentment and as the head of state he exercised his constitutional right," marked Sliusarenko.
As Ukrainian News reported, the government paper Uriadovyi Kurier on May 16 published the president's speech addressed to Rada.
On May 13 Yuschenko planned to deliver to the parliament his annual speech about internal and external state of Ukraine but the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko was blocking legislature.
