KIEV, June 20 - Ukraine's finance ministry on Thursday denied allegations by opposition politicians that a deputy finance minister had been drunk when he spoke to Parliament on the budget earlier this week.
Anatoly Myarkovsky, first deputy finance minister, had been suffering from high blood pressure, it said in a statement.
A parliamentary hearing was suspended on Tuesday after opposition deputies denounced Myarkovsky as drunk after he had presented a report on the 2012 budget.
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