KIEV, November 30 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's parliament said Thursday that the president proposed dismissing the country's top security official.
"A draft resolution, submitted by the president, to dismiss the head of Ukraine's Security Council was registered at the Supreme Rada yesterday," the legislature's press office said.
Viktor Yushchenko put Ihor Dryzhchany in charge of the National Security Council in September 2005.
In a separate development, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's governing coalition said Thursday it sought the removal of president-appointed Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, amid a growing rift between the coalition and Western-leaning pro-Yushchenko forces.
Lutsenko has been implicated by a parliamentary commission probing corruption allegations against ministry officials.
The position of another president appointee, Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, is also shaky now that Yanukovych has asked the legislature to consider his dismissal for an attempt to delay the premier's official visit to Washington, scheduled for next week.
Tarasyuk is known as a strong advocate of Ukraine's fast-track NATO membership, a prospect opposed by the pro-Moscow Yanukovych.
