A swearing-in ceremony of Ukraine's president-elect Viktor Yanukovych will be held Thursday, February 25.

The Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) will open a solemn meeting at 10.00 a.m. for newly-elected president Viktor Yanukovych to take the oath before the Ukrainian people. Yanukovych will be given a mace, a stamp and a certificate of the head of state. He will become Ukraine's fourth president.

According to the official plan, there will be the national anthem sounded first, then the CEC chairman will announce the election returns and Yanukovych will be invited to take the oath. After the oath, which comprises 58 words along with prepositions, the Constitutional Court chief judge will present a mace and other symbols of the presidential power to Yanukovych. During the solemn meeting, Yanukovych will address to the Ukraine nation with an inaugural speech. He will take the oath on the Peresopnytsia Gospels.

Following the solemnities in the parliament, approximately at 10.45 a.m. Yanukovych will take his way to the building of the Presidential Secretariat for a ceremony of providing military honors to the President of Ukraine. After a report of the Chief of General Staff, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukraine Armed Forces, Ivan Svyda, the Guard of Honor men will march in review before the President of Ukraine, Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

At 14.00 p.m. the Ukrainian House will host a solemn reception on behalf of President Viktor Yanukovych for heads of foreign delegations. Additionally, this day Yanukovych will hold a range of bilateral meetings at the House with Chimaeras and a lunch for the honorable guests.

Invitations have been sent to over 100 delegations. Heads of 11 states will be present at the swearing-in ceremony. As of February 24, there were confirmations of 11 heads of state, 4 heads of influential international organizations, over 15 foreign ministers, and 4 parliament speakers.

Delegations of neighboring countries, EU, CIS, G-20, as well Ukraine's large trade partners were first of all invited to the inauguration of Viktor Yanukovych.

According to one of the ceremony managers Serhiy Liovochkin of the Party of Regions, the solemnities will be 'extremely modest' with tough financial and economic situation in Ukraine taken into account.