Ukrainian president Yuschenko remembers Shoah victims at his swearing-in 

Viktor Yuschenko has remembered the victims of the Holocaust as he made his first public appearance as Ukrainian president. In his speech Sunday in Kiev’s public square following his inauguration in parliament, Yuschenko also pledged that in Ukraine all religious beliefs would be respected and everybody would be equal before the law. Yuschenko is scheduled to participate in the commemoration ceremonies at Auschwitz next Thursday. Among the representatives of 64 nations at his inauguration were the speaker of the Israeli parliament and the outgoing US Secretary of State, Colin Powell.