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Yulia: I want to make a deal with Viktor
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KIEV, Sept. 24 – A week after flatly ruling out coalition talks with President Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defense, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s lawmakers indicated Wednesday such talks were possible and could be successful.

The two groups, joined by the centrist group led by former Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, held their meeting on Wednesday, the first such meeting since the spectacular collapse of their earlier coalition on Sept. 2.

The meeting comes as pressure mounts on Tymoshenko to form any coalition within three weeks or face the dismissal of Parliament, an outcome she has earlier indicated she would seek to avoid.

The development comes after earlier talks between Tymoshenko and the opposition Regions Party stumbled after Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Regions, had asked for the post of the prime minister in the new coalition.

Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defense earlier suggested conditions for the talks would be the approval of a resolution that condemns Russia for incursion into Georgia last month, something that Tymoshenko has so far been refusing to support.

Also, Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defense said Tymoshenko would have to change her position towards bills that reduce presidential powers. Tymoshenko group backed the bills on Sept. 2, a move that had triggered the collapse of the coalition with Our Ukraine.

“We have preliminary agreed that within the three groups we will prepare a resolution on events in Georgia,” Andriy Kozhemiakin, a top coalition negotiator for the Tymoshenko group, said Wednesday after the meeting. “Secondly, we have agreed positions towards overcoming the veto on some of the bills.”

“Speaking of other bills [as part of Our Ukraine’s demand] we have to consult within our group. This is when we will decide,” Kozhemiakin said.

Mykola Tomenko, another Tymoshenko loyalist and deputy speaker of Parliament, said that the meeting could finally mark the turnaround in the talks, and added further meetings on Thursday and Friday will be crucial.

“We can say that the ice started to melt and the chance for the coalition of the three had emerged,” Tomenko said. “I look optimistically on the negotiations.”

Oleh Zarubynskiy, the coalition negotiator for the Lytvyn group, said there were some positive signs.

“The tone and the context of the talks were rather constructive,” Zarubynskiy said. “At least, we have defined what to begin with and have drafted a road map.”

Ksenia Liapina, a lawmaker at Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defense, said the group had little confidence in the Tymoshenko Bloc promises, but said the group will be taking extra steps to ensure the promises are implemented.

“There are reasons to doubt the sincerity of the Tymoshenko Bloc that have recently voted for such a pile of bills with the Regions Party that undermine the basis for the Ukrainian statehood,” Liapina said. “So, we are testing this sincerity.” (nr/ez)




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