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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has vetoed a law on the preservation of state and municipal health improvement establishments.

The president’s press service reported that the head of state returned the law with his proposals for revision to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, on Jan. 11.

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed the document on Dec. 21, 2010.

The law prohibits executive agencies and local government agencies from making decisions on restructuring, confiscating or mortgaging state and municipal health-improvement establishments.

It also imposes a ban on the merger, joining, division, leasing and mortgaging of these establishments for other uses.