UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COALITION BREAKS UP – SPEAKER

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2010-03-02

KIEV, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. The coalition in the Ukrainian parliament
has broken up, speaker Vladimir Litvin said on Tuesday. The coalition
comprised Yulia Timoshenko’s bloc (BYuT), Our Ukraine – People’s
Self Defense (NU-NS) bloc and Litvin’s bloc, Armenpress reports
citing Itar-Tass.

"The parliament has not gathered up to date the 226 signatures of the
lawmakers confirming the existing of the tripartite coalition. This
gives me the reason to make such a statement," the speaker said after
a conference with faction leaders.

Earlier on Tuesday, NU-NS faction leader Nikolai Martynenko stated
his faction’s readiness to for talks with the Party of Regions over
forming a new coalition.

He noted that NU-NS had come up with it own nominee for prime minister.