Ukraine, Georgia Planning to Set Up Democratic Coalition

BISHKEK. Kyrgyzstan -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili want to establish a Ukrainian-Georgian coalition "Democratic Choice," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said in Kyrgyzstan's capital city of Bishkek on Thursday.

Tarasyuk and his Georgian counterpart Salome Zourabichvili are discussing Yushchenko's and Saakashvili's involvement in settling the crisis in Kyrgyzstan.

Asked if a new union could be set up to comprise Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, Tarasyuk replied, "We did not talk about unions."

At the same time, he did not rule out that Kyrgyzstan could in the future be included in the Ukrainian-Georgian coalition.