BYuT, OUPSD, Bloc of Lytvyn sing coalition agreement

A coalition with the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT), Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (OUPSD) and Bloc of Lytvyn is formed in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada. Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn announced creation of the coalition even on December 9, however the agreement needed to legalize this alliance has been singed only today.

The coalition agreement was signed by BYuT faction leader Ivan Kyrylenko, Block of Lytvyn faction chairman Ihor Sharov and OUPSD deputy faction chairman Borys Tarasiuk. OUPSD faction leader Viacheslav Kyrylenko has resigned today having thus disagreed with the OUPSD majority entering the coalition.

The coalition participants noted that the agreement took into account suggestions of all three factions, including those being most disputable. In particular, the instrument reads that the issue on Ukraine's NATO accession will be considered only after the Nationwide Referendum, while the position to honor participants in the national liberation movement of the Ukrainian people is decoded in the way that this category now involves not only the figures of the 20th century, but also all historical personalities being engaged in such a struggle for over Ukraine's millenary history.

The coalition forces also came to a compromise as regards the land market. Taking into account a stance of the Bloc of Lytvyn, the coalition document says that this market will be operational after the relevant laws are adopted - on the land cadastre and on the land appraised value.

The coalition participants preferred making antiseptic phrases about strength of the new coalition. A figure of "more than 230 votes" was named. The BYuT faction incorporates 156 MPs, Lytvyn's Bloc - 20 MPs, and 37 out of 72 OUPSD MPs as of today's morning.

UKRINFORM