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Ukraine's president urges factions to sign unity pact

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Ukraine's president insists that roundtable discussions with the leaders of parliamentary factions continue, and that the sides sign a national unity pact by the end of the day, his press-secretary said Tuesday.
KIEV, August 1, (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's president insists that roundtable discussions with the leaders of parliamentary factions continue, and that the sides sign a national unity pact by the end of the day, his press-secretary said Tuesday.

The agreement proposed by the president to end the country's four-month political crisis has met with resistance from members of pro-Russian Party of Regions, due to the pro-Western policies it proposes, including joining NATO and securing Ukrainian as the country's sole official language.

"The Ukrainian president considers that roundtable discussions must be held today, at which politicians must sign the unity pact," Irina Gerashchenko said.

The president has until Wednesday to decide whether to confirm his "orange" revolution rival Viktor Yanukovych, who heads the Party of Regions, as prime minister, or to dissolve parliament - a right he received after the assembly missed a 60-day deadline for forming a new government.

The anti-crisis coalition in parliament, comprising the Party of Regions, which received the largest number of parliamentary seats in a March election, Moroz's Socialist Party, and the Communists, nominated Yanukovych for prime minister earlier this month.

Earlier on Tuesday, Yushchenko's press service said the president was committed to finding a compromise and reaching mutual understanding, and that he regarded his "right to dissolve parliament as a last resort."

Gerashchenko said that Yushchenko had held meetings Tuesday with Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of an eponymous pro-Western bloc, Roman Bessmertny, leader of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc, and his "orange" revolution rival Viktor Yanukovych, who heads the pro-Russian Party of Regions.

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