Tymoshenko rules out coalition talks before presidential polls

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that any talks on the unification of political forces will not be held before presidential elections.

In an interview with the Fifth TV Channel, she described the upcoming presidential elections as a "full-scale political confrontation," which, in her opinion, is characteristic of any other country.

"It is more important what happens after presidential elections," Tymoshenko said, adding that she wanted to unite all of the parliamentary political forces. "I will do that again ten times, because the country cannot live in such a way any longer," she said.

Tymoshenko said that her eponymous bloc, during its coalition talks with the Regions Party, had drafted constitutional amendments simultaneously with economic changes on finding a way out of the crisis. "An agreed, large-scale anti-crisis program was simultaneously being drafted. And we wanted to submit these documents [for consideration by parliament] simultaneously. We would have submitted them if this big provocative war had not started," she said.

UKRINFORM