The inauguration of Ukrainian president...

Yanukovych is scheduled to take the oath of office at parliament on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. local time (08:00 GMT).

The Ukrainian Central Election Commission declared Yanukovych winner in the presidential election on February 14, but his rival Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko"s appeal to contest the results suspended the announcement until last Saturday, when she withdrew it.

Invitations to attend the ceremony have been given to all Ukrainian ministers, the country"s Youth and Sport Minister Yuriy Pavlenko said.

"I have received an invitation to the inauguration, and I am likely to attend it, because there is a responsibility, and such a notion as succession of power," Pavlenko said.

Tymoshenko"s bloc meanwhile signaled it would not attend the ceremony, bloc member Serhiy Mishchenko said.

"We will not attend the inauguration. This is not our feast, and we have not been invited to the feast," the parliamentarian was quoted as saying on the Tymoshenko

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