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Yushchenko has called on the Prosecutor General's Office to complete within thirty days an investigation into illegal building work on the territory of Nikitsky Botanical Garden Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called on the Prosecutor General's Office to complete within thirty days an investigation into illegal building work on the territory of Nikitsky Botanical Garden.

The president was speaking at a consultative meeting on development nature reserves held in the village of Hayivka, Volyn region.

"There are a great number of establishments, which do not have legal titles to land," the president said, adding that Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernivtsi regions as well as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea have seen the worst such cases of the illegal use of land.

The president drew attention to the situation at Nikitsky Botanical Garden. The borders of the garden haven't been legally determined yet, though both the president and the government had issued numerous orders on this matter, Yushchenko said. Not only private houses but also hotel complexes have been built on its territory, the president said.

The head of state ordered a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office, present at the meeting, to investigate this issue within thirty days. The culprits should be punished, the president said.