Today at the morning sitting the speaker of the VR of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk announced closing the first session of the VR of the sixth convocation and opening the second one.

The speaker of the VR also named the deputies absent in the session hall and informed they would be deprived of their salary for the day.

Opening the second session today Arseniy Yatseniuk defined and put for voting the main issues of the agenda. Among them are the issues of NATO, three decisions on interim investigating commissions, cancelling deputy immunity, social draft law On living wage, changes to laws on health protection. 243 deputies of 246 registered in the session hall voted for the agenda.

The speech of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko to the VR was postponed.

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