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The Ukrainian parliament has postponed for an indefinite period of time its consideration of a draft law on the introduction of a 15% fee to the Pension Fund from the sale of cash foreign currency by individuals.

“I propose to postpone the consideration [of the document], to study it thoroughly and discuss it,” Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said at the parliamentary session on Tuesday during the discussion of the inclusion of the draft law into the session’s agenda.

Lytvyn said that the consideration of the document was postponed at the suggestion of the profile committee.

Opposition lawmakers insisted that the parliament voted for the postponement of the consideration of the bill.

Lytvyn said that if the proposal does not have the support of 226 and more votes, there would be a chance to put the draft law on the agenda of the parliament’s session on December 4, 2012.