11:32 06.02.2014

UDAR faction would vote for Yatseniuk, won't delegate its members - parliamentarian

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The UDAR opposition party's faction at the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, would vote for a new government composition led by Arseniy Yatseniuk, the current leader of the Batkivschyna party faction, but would not delegate its representatives to it before Viktor Yanukovych's resignation as president.

"The UDAR faction and party leader Vitali Klitschko's position is: we are ready to support voting for a candidate for government head if this is Arseniy Yatseniuk. The UDAR party faction will not take part in forming this government as long as Viktor Yanukovych is president of Ukraine," UDAR faction member Valery Patskan said on Channel 5 television on Wednesday evening.

UDAR is ready to support an opposition government in any way it can, in particular, "vote for reforms and help them in resolving the economic crisis that is present in Ukraine today," he said.

Not only opposition parliamentarians but also majority and unaffiliated ones could be involved in forming such a government, Patskan said. "This should actually be a government that could pull Ukraine out of the crisis," he said.

The UDAR party does not see Russia's involvement as a mediator in the negotiations on overcoming the political crisis in Ukraine as appropriate, he said.

"If there is the necessity for having four parties, including Russia, in order to find a way to overcome the political crisis, then there are no objections. But we see a lot of steps on Russia's side today, [including] the Crimean parliament's statement yesterday on federalization, which the Communists have also supported, and therefore its role as a negotiator in the process […] is very shaky, and it may not be beneficial for Ukraine," Patskan said.

Klitschko suggested earlier that a third party should be engaged to mediate in negotiations between the government and the opposition and claimed that the European Union is ready to delegate such mediators.

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