Yushchenko Urges Byut, Party Of Regions To Reformat Relations

POLTAVA, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has urged the political forces of the country to take sufficient steps to form a democratic coalition in the parliament.

President Viktor Yushchenko with PM Viktor Yanukovych (Background).
“The coalition must be based on the results of political elections and of the bids formulated: an ‘Orange’ coalition of democratic forces must be formulated in parliament. I urge everyone to take sufficient steps towards the settlement required in order to form a democratic coalition,” Yushchenko said at a news conference in Poltava on November 8.

“I would like to tell the leaders of all political forces which have got into the parliament: you have assumed political responsibility, you have come to the Rada and your task now is to form a majority quickly and to shape the parliament’s leading bodies,” Interfax quoted him as saying.

“Political stability is Mission number one, which the political forces now in the parliament must see as their task,” Yushchenko added. “But with an advantage of just a few votes, the parliamentary majority will not be able to work smoothly,” he said. “This is what I said to Timoshenko (the leader of the Yulia Timoshenko bloc Byut) and to (Prime Minister Viktor) Yanukovich: a new format of relations must be found.

But the policy cannot be formed on the basis of revenge. It must not be a policy of individuals,” Yushchenko said.

Source: New Europe