The chairman of the National Agency for Preparation for the 2012 European Soccer Championship, Yevhen Chervonenko, believes that the agency is being dissolved in order to exclude President Viktor Yuschenko from the preparation for the championship.

Chervonenko announced this at a press conference.

"Firstly, elimination of the president from the Euro. It is definitely a political step," Chervonenko said.

He blamed Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunyk personally for the dissolution of the agency, saying that the issue of its dissolution was included on the agenda of a government meeting without notification of members of the government.

"Even the prime minister asked Vasiunyk whether he coordinated this issue with the president," Chervonenko said.

He added that he has already spoken to Yuschenko on this issue but he declined to say whether Yuschenko intended to suspend the Cabinet of Ministers resolution that dissolved the agency.

According to him, Yuschenko agreed with his arguments on the need to improve the system for managing the preparation for the championship.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Chervonenko has said that the agency was dissolved because it was implementing a policy that was inconvenient for the Cabinet of Ministers.

The Cabinet of Ministers decided on November 19 to dissolve the National Agency for Preparation for the 2012 European Soccer Championship.

The process of its dissolution will be completed within a period of three months.

The Cabinet of Ministers set up a coordinating bureau for preparation for the 2012 European soccer championship within the Cabinet of Ministers secretariat on November 19.