PM urges to revive democratic coalition with BYuT, OUPSD, Lytvyn's Bloc within a week

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko calls on President Viktor Yushchenko to resume the democratic coalition in the parliament within this week.

"I approach the President to renew the democratic coalition...If the democratic coalition is not resumed till the end of this week, we will be looking for other options and other proposals," she told a news conference Wednesday.

Tymoshenko also called on Lytvyn's Bloc to partake in the democratic coalition having joined BYuT and OUPSD. According to the Premier, the BYuT faction is ready to back Volodymyr Lytvyn's candidature for speaker and sign all relevant agreements.

The Head of Government also claimed that the Cabinet is ready to coordinate macroeconomic indicators for 2009 with the President.

"We are ready by the next week to take into account all indicators the President wants to see in the macroeconomic indicators," the Prime Minister noted.

According to her, the government was ready to endorse the macroeconomic indicators for 2009 at today's meeting, "but a presidential representative [Oleksandr Shlapak] addressed the meeting saying that these indicators had not been coordinated with the President".

"A working group will be set up to work out all indicators conjointly," Yulia Tymoshenko said.

UKRINFORM