Yushchenko orders removal of supporters'''' tent camp

(14 Jan 2005) 1. Exterior shot of Supreme Court 2. Minibus doors open, box of Yanukovych complaints is removed 3. Removal of box of complaints 4. Boxes are lifted out of minibus 5. Boxes carried away 6. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Taras Chornovyl, Yanukovych Campaign manager: "We have come here to say that the decision made by the Central Election Commission (declaring Yushchenko the winner) was wrong, and we want the court to properly investigate this." 7. Yanukovych minibus drives away 8. Church 9. Interior of church with priest 10. Victor Yushchenko crosses himself 11. Interior of church 12. Yushchenko and coterie exit 13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Victor Yushchenko, Winner of Ukrainian presidential election: "We won honest elections. We are the winners. Nobody should be in doubt about the outcome of these elections. We weren't the ones who falsified the elections. Those who were in power are to blame. You can ask any voter in any place who was behind the falsifications and I don't think anybody would point the finger at my side." 14. Crowd surrounding Yushchenko 15. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Victor Yushchenko, Winner of Ukrainian presidential election: "It's a pity that the camp - because it was a symbol of the protest - is resigned to history, but on the other hand we are now moving on. The orange revolution is only just beginning. What still needs to be done is a colossal task." 16. Kreshchatik Street 17. Tents and bystanders 18. Man hands out orange ribbons 19. Tents 20. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Voxpop: Stepan from Ivanofrankovsk: "We will stay here until the inauguration. Anything could happen. Yanukovych is a cunning person. We will stay here until the final victory." 21. Street STORYLINE: The campaign team of Viktor Yanukovych, the loser in the December 26 Ukrainian presidential vote, filed its appeal against the election results with the Supreme Court on Friday in a last attempt to overturn the victory by Western-leaning reformer Viktor Yushchenko. The court, along with Ukraine's election commission, has already rejected an array of appeals from Yanukovych's team. The new complaint was based on 621 volumes of documents and 233 videotapes. Campaign manager Taras Chornovyl said the voluminous appeal, delivered in a minivan, urges the court to "order a revote". Nestor Shufrich, Yanukovych's representative on the Central Election Commission, filed the complaint along with other members of the losing candidate's team. He said that the court had "temporarily rejected" the videotapes as evidence "without any explanation". Three lawyers from Switzerland and five from Ukraine will represent Yanukovych in court, Shufrich said. "We need foreign lawyers because we intend to appeal not only to Ukrainian but to European institutions, as well," he added. The move came as Yushchenko said on Friday that he had ordered protesters to remove the tent camp in downtown Kiev, Oleksandr Lytvynenko, an analyst with the Kiev-based Razumkov think tank, said that Yanukovych's appeal was simply intended to delay the inauguration of Yushchenko, who was declared the winner of the election on Monday but cannot be inducted into office until the high court reviews his rival's complaints. Shufrich warned that Yanukovych's backers would launch nationwide protests in case the court rules against him. As he spoke, about a dozen protesters waving Yanukovych's white-and-blue campaign flags rallied in front of the Supreme Court in Kiev The December 26 election was a rerun of November 21 fraudulent balloting in which Yanukovych was declared the winner. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...