KIEV, February 27 - RAPSI, Alyona Meita. Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko will not ask the president for a pardon, he wrote on his blog from prison on Wednesday.

Former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former European Parliament President Pat Cox, who are acting as special envoys to the European Parliament's monitoring mission to Ukraine, have asked Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to pardon Lutsenko, media reported on Wednesday.

The European Commission has also voiced hope that Lutsenko will be pardoned.

"I will not ask President Yanukovych to pardon me," Lutsenko wrote on his blog. "I have nothing to repent. I am a political prisoner and not a criminal. I have never committed the things that they convicted me of. I consider the Ukrainian courts verdicts politically motivated. This reprisal has nothing to do with justice."

Lutsenko said it is logical that he should be released upon a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. It was earlier thought possible that he would be released for health reasons, but he was denied the request.

"Amnesty is not realistic either because amnesty cannot apply to people convicted on charges as strong as mine," he wrote.

Lutsenko was sentenced to four years in prison and confiscation of property on charges of grand-scale embezzlement and to two years for abuse of office.