Yushchenko’s secretariat confuses everyone: Agreement on Orange coalition already initialed

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After long talks on Monday with participation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, leaders of BYT Yulia Timoshenko and Our Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko initialed an agreement on establishing the Orange coalition at the new Supreme Rada, a REGNUM correspondent reports from the site.

As Timoshenko announced, “we have fully completed the talks on establishing the coalition and no uncoordinated issues left.” In his turn, Our Ukraine leader Vyacheslav Kirilenko said the agreement would be signed o the first day of the new Supreme Rada functioning. He also noted that “a certain point in the agreement states that a coalition with the Regions Party or the Communist Party is impossible.” The pro-presidential force’s leader added that the two partners in the future coalition have agreed upon 12 draft bills to be passed at the Ukrainian parliament first of all. “This is a new redaction of the law on the Cabinet as well, the law on lifting immunity of a deputy and the law on the rights of opposition,” Vyacheslav Kirilenko said. “We are ready to vote on all the laws in a package even before a prime minister is elected,” he added.

Earlier, the presidential press office released information that BYT and Our Ukraine – People’s Defense expressed readiness to sign an agreement on forming a parliamentary coalition at the Supreme Rada on Tuesday, October 16.