KIEV, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - An investigation into the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's president, is making progress, the Novosti-Ukraine news agency quoted Ukrainian National Security and Defense Secretary Petro Poroshenko as saying live on television Monday.
Poroshenko refused to divulge any details in the interests of investigation.
"Ukraine's Security Service, which is headed by Oleksandr Turchynov, bears direct responsibility investigating this case," Poroshenko said. He added that only the service had the right to release any information about it.
In September 2004, Yushchenko was hospitalized in an Austrian clinic suffering from symptoms similar to poisoning. His campaign manager Oleksandr Zinchenko later confirmed that Yushchenko had been poisoned. Foreign doctors discovered concentrations of the dioxin 2,3,7,8-TCDD in his blood that were 6,000 times higher than normal.
