Sergey Tihipko and Viktor Pinchuk

Leader of the "Labour Ukraine" party fraction Sergey Tihipko, left, is seen thinking in Ukraine's parliament in Kiev on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002. Right - "Labour Ukraine" party fraction member Viktor Pinchuk. This day a letter signed by Tihipko with his request not to consider his nomination for the Ukraine's National Bank head post appeared on the parliament's speaker table. Later this day Ihor Sharov, the same fraction's member, said that this letter is a provocation. UNIAN photo