Yushchenko arrives in Kiev; comments on poisoning

Описание: (13 Dec 2004) SHOTLIST
1. Various exteriors of Kiev airport terminal
2. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko walking out of building
3. Car driving past
4. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian presidential candidate:
(Ukrainian) Viktor Yushenko, leader of the opposition:
"I am convinced that (Ukrainian) authorities have arranged it (poisoning). But the investigation will take some time. Many circumstances (areas) have been already been opened and if the general prosecution of Ukraine acts according to the law, as I hope, Ukraine and the whole world will know who was in charge of it (the poisoning)."
5. Camera
6. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian presidential candidate:
"You know, I have heard a lot of stories and legends on how this poison has been delivered, where it has been produced, which secret services were used for delivering it in Ukraine, etc. I am not eager to comment all this stuff, because it is a very delicate point. I do not want to cast any shadow on anybody, before it is established by the court."
7. Camera
8. Yushchenko gets into car which drives off
STORYLINE
Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko called on Sunday for a serious investigation to determine how he was poisoned by
dioxin, but urged it be conducted after the Dec. 26 presidential runoff election to avoid influencing the results.
Doctors at Vienna's Rudolfiner clinic said tests run over the weekend proved beyond a doubt that it was dioxin poisoning that caused a mystery illness in September that left Yushchenko disfigured and in pain.
Following the discovery of the dioxin, Ukraine's prosecutor general's office said it had reopened the criminal investigation that it closed in November for lack of evidence of poisoning. After returning home to Kiev to resume campaigning, he said such an investigation would uncover the culprits.
"Soon we'll know who did it," Yushchenko told reporters at the airport.
While high concentrations of dioxin remain in his blood, doctors said Yushchenko's organs have not been damaged and he is fit for the campaign trail.
Lawmakers from Yushchenko's party said the clinic's findings confirmed that his opponents wanted to assassinate or disable him rather than take the risk he would defeat Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential election.
Kremlin-backed Yanukovych won the initial presidential runoff, but the Supreme Court voided the vote on fraud allegations.

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