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Talks on pro-Western coalition deadlocked
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KIEV, April 18 ??“ Talks over creation of a pro-Western coalition were in a deadlock on Tuesday after former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko had rejected a key demand set by President Viktor Yushchenko.

Tymoshenko refused to draft a detailed roadmap of economic policy measures and reforms to be implemented by the future government, a move that may deal a fatal blow towards the coalition.

???We will not be wasting our time for giving birth to new programs,??? Tymoshenko said at a press conference Tuesday. ???There is ???the 10 steps towards people??™ and the program of the government that I have led that had been supported by 370 lawmakers. We discontinue all debates over the program and rely on these two documents.???

Hours later Yushchenko issued a special statement to stress that he had been ???concerned??? over developments around the creation of the coalition.

Yushchenko has been persistently urging groups to draft the roadmap before the coalition is formally created in order to prevent infighting between the groups that had already toppled the government last year.

The roadmap was seen as an important safeguard to prevent Tymoshenko from resorting to populism and controversial economic measures, such as the re-privatization, that had slowed economic growth last year.

Although Tymoshenko has recently pledged to abandon her controversial economic policies, the refusal to draft the roadmap is likely to boost suspicions among potential coalition partners that such policy may continue.

Meanwhile, other signs have been emerging Tuesday indicating that the coalition between the Tymoshenko group, Yushchenko??™s Our Ukraine and the Socialist Party may collapse.

Tymoshenko, who has been earlier suggesting that an Our Ukraine member should get the post of the Speaker of Parliament, on Tuesday changed her mind to suggest the post to be taken by Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz.

???We will be firmly insisting on Moroz becoming the Speaker,??? Tymoshenko said.

In return, the Socialist Party issued a statement supporting Tymoshenko as the post of the prime minister.

But both demands will probably be outright rejected by Our Ukraine, a key partner, and may further undermine the trilateral coalition, analysts said.

Tymoshenko called on Yushchenko to step in the process of the creation of the coalition and said the president will bear responsibility if the talks fail.

???We make the president responsible for the creation of the coalition,??? Tymoshenko said.

But Yushchenko, in the statement, urged political figures ???to refrain from the language of blackmail and ultimatums.??? He urged to settle all problematic issues through negotiations and insisted that the coalition members draft the roadmap.

???The most pressing draft laws have to be drafted, jointly with main economic and social tasks, and strict timeframes must be set,??? Yushchenko said. (tl/ez)




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