Third President of Ukraine (2005-2010) Viktor Yuschenko is ready to give a blood sample for international testing for the case on his poisoning if the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine explains why it is not satisfied with the results of the previous tests.
"I am ready to give a blood sample for another international test… but I would like to know [why] the Prosecutor General’s Office does not accept the results of the previous international tests. I have no objection to a third test, but under the condition that they [the PGO] officially explain what legal problems there are with the second test," he told reporters in Kyiv on Thursday.
According to Yuschenko, he is demanding explanations so as to have legal basis to challenge the PGO’s conclusions in future.
It was reported earlier that while a presidential candidate, Yuschenko met with the top brass of the Ukrainian Security Service on Sept. 5, 2004.
Soon after that, Yuschenko was taken ill and was ultimately taken to a Vienna hospital on Sept. 10.
Doctors reportedly said Yuschenko had been poisoned by dioxin about five days before his hospitalization.
Yuschenko later underwent a number of tests, and an examination at the end of May 2006 confirmed the presence of a dioxin in his system.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka several times confirmed the PGO’s intention to take an additional sample of Yuschenko’s blood, as part of the investigation in the case.
In December 2010 Pshonka assumed that there was no poisoning of Yuschenko in 2004 and said that an additional blood test should be done to uncover the truth.
In January-February 2011, Yuschenko was interrogated at the PGO on the case on his poisoning.
On April 11, First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said that there was no proof in the case on Yuschenko’s poisoning and stated that no dioxin was found in Yuschenko’s blood.
"If Viktor Andriyovych Yuschenko does not take a blood test, we will have to close the criminal case on poisoning," Kuzmin said.
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