Prime Minister urging for unification

While opening Wednesday's government meeting, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko expressed the need for immediate unification of all political forces.

She says she has always been standing on the position of full unification. "Either all political forces unite to protect Ukraine over the global crisis period, or all politicians must confess that they cannot protect their country," she emphasized.

On Tuesday, for the first time representatives of the parliamentary factions of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Party of Regions expressed in public the possibility of creating a new coalition, having called on other factions to join them.

Representatives of the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc and the For Ukraine union said they would not partake in the new coalition.

President Viktor Yushchenko welcomes creation of a broad coalition, yet threatening with tough measures in case of amendment of the Constitution to introduce election of the president in parliament and prolong Verkhovna Rada's authorities.

UKRINFORM