President postpones early parliamentary elections until December 14

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said after an extraordinary meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on Monday evening that he takes the country's situation under tight control, postpones snap parliamentary elections from December 7 until December 14 due to the government's failure to implement his decree and that he resumes parliamentary work for several days so that anti-crisis laws and laws necessary for the holding of the elections are passed.

Therefore, the Verkhovna Rada, which the president dissolved by his decree of October 9, will continue working in a regime of plenary sessions on October 21.

Yushchenko said that it would be "extremely difficult," but necessary to adopt at least ten anti-crisis bills.

The president said that the parliament should pass laws on a stabilization fund and guarantees to public deposits in banks, which may be backed by all political forces in parliament.

Yushchenko also said that he had submitted the rest of bills for consideration by political forces so that they determine what "they can support and pass as laws."

The head of state noted that taking into account the recent blocking of the Verkhovna Rada's work by the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, October 21 would show who provokes the situation and who wants to settle it under conditions of the political and economic crises.

UKRINFORM