Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunyk of Ukraine

KIEV, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Ukraine's government is dissolving an agency overseeing preparations for Euro 2012 after European soccer body UEFA complained that it was inefficient, deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunyk said on Wednesday.

Besides, in the process of his working visit Vice Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunyk met with Jerusalem Patriarch Teophilus III.

Vasyunyk said Ukrainian government values the relations with China, and firmly adheres to the one-China policy.

Vasyunyk said the Ukrainian people expected the opening of the Beijing Paralympic Games to be as successful as the opening of the Olympics.

When Vasyunyk was asked on what basis his assertion was made, he replied, "There is a lot of information.

Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunyk was quoted by the UNIAN news agency as saying he had noted a more favourable outlook in talks with UEFA officials on Thursday in the Swiss town of Nyon.

The atmosphere in Vienna and that in Nyon were completely different," Vasyunyk was quoted as saying.

Vasyunyk said discussions at a UEFA meeting in Vienna in June had focused on delays in renovating Kiev's main stadium, due to host the 2012 final.

Vasyunyk was here on a visit to China for the Beijing Olympic Games.

relations with China, and firmly adheres to the one-China policy.

talks with UEFA officials on Thursday in the Swiss town of Nyon.

different, Vasyunyk was quoted as saying.

facility in the western city of Lviv.

var RTR_ArticleBlurb = " KIEV, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Ukraine's government is dissolving an agency overseeing preparations for Euro 2012 after European soccer body UEFA complained that it was inefficient, deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunyk said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Ivan Vasyunyk said on Wednesday.

Ivan Vasyunyk is expected to arrive Thursday for talks with high-level Israeli officials.

Vasyunyk is expected to follow up on the call on Israel to recognize the 1932-1933 Holodomor, or Famine in Ukraine, as an act of genocide.

unsound political-legal situation in the city of Kyiv.

Also, in a fairly short time Vasyunyk has managed to head a new group offavourites which was formed after the departure of the dear friends - theso-called group of Galicians from western Ukraine.

Vasyunyk is actively lobbying the appointment of his brother to the post ofhead of the NJSC, competing with Oleksiy Ivchenko's man Popadyuk, Oleksandr Tretyakov, who ran the NJSC as the president's firstaide, and also with such a giant in questions of the fuel and energy complexas the former deputy prime minister on these questions, Vitaliy Hayduk.

But Vasyunyk is not just taking up the case for his relatives: he would liketo see Viktor Baloha, who at one time dissociatedhimself from the dear friends group and joined up with the notoriousGalicia group, in the post of head of the secretariat.

Vasyunyk said the main issue weighing down Ukrainian organisers had been resolved: increased financing to renovate the stadium in Kiev, due to host the final, and start building a facility in the western city of Lviv.

some time and is expected to continue his active role for the President.