KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday urged his nation to remove all the monuments commemorating the totalitarian regime.

As he addressed a meeting on Kiev's Mikhailovsky Square that had gathered in connection with 75 years since the outbreak of famine of 1932 and 1933, Yushchenko condemned the Communist era and said his country "should put on a clean shirt, removing the symbols of totalitarianism from its body."

* PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO URGES RIVALS TO TALKS FOR SAKE OF PARLIAMENT'S STABILIZATION

* FRENCH PRESIDENT WELCOMES HIS UKRAINIAN COUNTERPART

* PRESIDENT DISCUSSES BIPARTITE COOPERATION WITH FRENCH LEADER

* DURING HIS TRIP TO FRANCE PRESIDENT INTERVIEWED BY FRENCH MEDIA

* PRESIDENT LEAVES FOR FRANCE

* CEC PROCESSES 99.98% OF PROTOCOLS

* UKRAINE REASSURES EUROPE OF UKRAINE'S READINESS TO PROMPTLY SOLVE GAS SETTLEMENT ISSUE WITH RUSSIA

* UPCOMING EURO-2012 ALREADY BRINGS INVESTMENTS TO UKRAINE

UNIS: 30 Years of Service to our Community

(UNIS), the Washington, DC public relations office of the UCCA. Since its founding in 1977, UNIS has acted as a liaison office by providing information to the community in order to facilitate individual participation in U.S. political processes, which in turn enhances the visibility of Ukrainian organizations and the greater Ukrainian community. UNIS' mandates include: voicing our community's interests and issues to government officials; tracking legislation that affects Ukraine and our community; and gathering information about U.S. government activities pertaining to Ukraine.

* PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES GRAIN GROWERS OF KYIV REGION WITH FIRST MILLION OF NEW HARVEST'S GRAIN

* VERKHOVNA RADA'S SNAP SESSION POSTPONED

* WTO TO SUPPORT UKRAINIAN AGROINDUSTRIAL SECTOR

* GDP TO UP BY 7.2% IN 2008, ECONOMY MINISTER SAYS

Dear Sirs:

I was pleased to hear your feature today on Canada's first national internment operations of 1914 -1920. It is a national disgrace that Mary Manko Haskett, who was interned as a young child in the camp in Spirit Lake, Quebec, passed away last week in her 99th year, not having witnessed a resolution of this long outstanding matter. If indeed it is Ottawa's mandarins who have managed to manipulate several governments into side stepping this issue, it is high time that their political bosses, our elected representatives, took them to task. Prime Minister Harper - over to you.

Alexandra Chyczij

* PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FINANCING BUDGETARY PROGRAMS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT OF STUDENTS

* VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO ISSUES DECREE ON MARKING 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF UKRAINE'S INDEPENDENCE

* PRESIDENT DECREES OLEKSANDR MEDVEDKO NSDC MEMBER

* PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO DEFINES PRINCIPAL PRACTICAL TASKS FOR PREPARATION AND HOLDING OF EURO 2012

The Ukrainian parliament has wound up its life and set the stage for early parliamentary elections on Sept. 30, four years ahead of schedule. The elections could give Ukraine's revolution -- recently mired in crisis -- new momentum and have an impact elsewhere in the post-Soviet space.

President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych agreed to hold early elections after a tense two month stand-off, caused by Prime Minister Yanukovych's attempt to diminish the powers of the president and reverse many of Yushchenko's pro-reform and pro-Western policies.