Doubts about Yushchenko

The president is on a working visit to London, where he hopes to get support for a NATO membership action plan. His meeting with Gordon Brown is expected to cover Georgia, NATO, and the economy. BBC also reports that he will meet with his faction after this visit and with other faction leaders. He probably will  gauge at that time whether to dissolve the Rada and take his chances with new elections. 

Howeer, as the recent Eurasia Daily Monitor (Volume 5, Issue 192) notes, Yushchenko star has finally began to fade in Washington and probably in other Western capitals. 

 In remarks made during the brief press conference afterward, Bush, who has been an active proponent of Ukrainian membership in NATO, acknowledged that they had discussed NATO but avoided any statement in support of Ukraine’s ambitions to join the alliance.

Washington, according to sources in the administration, is experiencing fatigue with Yushchenko, but not with Ukraine per se, they stress. The president of Ukraine is widely perceived to be an inept leader, and Washington is hedging its bets on who will become the next president of Ukraine.

at Tuesday, October 07, 2008

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