The opposition factions of Batkivschyna, Svoboda and UDAR in Ukraine's parliament are ready to support the bill on medical treatment of prisoners abroad drafted by independent MP Anzhelika Labunska, Head of the Batkivschyna faction Arseniy Yatseniuk.

"We are ready to support this bill.... And, if it is passed, we will not insist on the adoption of our bill," he said at a press conference on Friday.

Yatseniuk said that this was the agreed position of all three opposition parliamentary factions.

He added that the mission of the European Parliament pointed out that Labunska's bill was the best foundation for settling the issue of convicted former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. According to the MP, the opposition demands that on Monday the relevant committee should consider the bill and approve it.

"We demand that on Tuesday the first item on the parliament's agenda should be the consideration of Labunska's bill, which provides for the possibility of Tymoshenko's treatment abroad and removes any obstacles in the way of signing the Agreement between Ukraine and the EU," he said.

The MP said that the solution to this issue depends entirely on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Yatseniuk also noted that Tymoshenko supports the position of former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski and former European Parliament President Pat Cox.

As reported, two bills on the treatment of prisoners abroad, authored by independent lawmakers Serhiy Mischenko and Anzhelika Labunska, have been registered in the Ukrainian parliament.

Labunska's bill, which was submitted to the Ukrainian parliament on October 22, says that convicted persons may be allowed to go abroad for medical treatment if year-long uninterrupted medical treatment at a hospital located outside their penitentiary fails to heal them completely. Besides, this document also offers the court to simultaneously take a decision to exempt such person from punishment due to their illness.

Mischenko's bill, which allows convicted persons to receive medical treatment at a clinic abroad if convicts themselves or their relatives and friends pay for the clinic's services, was registered last summer.

On October 24, the leaders of three opposition factions - Arseniy Yatseniuk (Batkivschyna), Vitali Klitschko (UDAR) and Oleh Tiahnybok (Svoboda) - submitted a bill prohibiting selective justice and paving the way for Ukraine's signing of an association agreement with the European Union.

The Ukrainian parliament will debate these three bills on November 5-8.

On October 31, the members of the European Parliament's observation mission - former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski and former European Parliament President Pat Cox – said that Labunska's bill on treatment of convicts is the optimum for reaching a consensus in the issue of treatment convicts abroad.