Ukraine: Yanukovich meets the previous Presidents without cameras; US and EU high representatives arrive in Kyiv; protesters remain on Maidan

Massive anti-government protests in Kyiv
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Ukrainian President Victory Yanukovich is expected to meet three previous presidents, Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Victor Yushchenko. The meeting is planned to be held on Tuesday, 10 December, and was initiated by first President of independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk.

Leonid Kracvhuk has proposed Victor Yanukovich to hold negotiations with the previous presidents in order to discuss current situation and deepening political crisis and to organize also national dialogue attended by the representatives of government and oppositional forces which is considered being necessary to resolve the crisis in a peaceful way. Victor Yanukovich has accepted this invitation.

The meeting of four Ukrainian presidents was expected to be aired online of one of the state TV channels, but on Tuesday it was announced the recorded version of the meeting will be shown on the state TV in the evening. The meeting is being held behind the closed doors, with no journalists and reporters allowed.

Ukrainian ex-President Leonid Kravchuk called to Victor Yanukovich for the necessity of national dialogue

Four Ukrainian Presidents: Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma,
Victor Yushchenko and Victor Yanukovich
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Ukrainian first President Leonid Kravchuk has addressed Victor Yanukovich to hold negotiations and to organize national dialogue attended by the government and opposition in order to resolve the deepening political crisis in Ukraine and to avoid escalation in the country.

Negotiations attended by the representatives of the current government and oppositional forces are necessary in order to find the peaceful and political solution of the crisis and to avoid use of violence strongly condemned also by EU and Western politicians.

The upcoming parliamentary elections in Ukraine

Ukrainian Parliament

On Sunday, 28 October 2012, Ukrainian citizens will head to the thousands of polling station across the country and also abroad to take part in the parliamentary elections and to vote for the new Parliament. It will be the first parliamentary elections during the time of the rule of Victor Yanukovich, Ukrainian current President, and there will be also the first elections since 1998 where the prominent oppositional leader and the country’s ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko won’t participate due to her trial and imprisonment.

Those parliamentary elections are extremely important for Ukraine and for its future relations with the world, especially with the Western countries, as the conducting of the democratic, fair and transparent elections, the results of the polls and the following actions of the future Parliament will be among the most decisive conditions for the future of Ukraine and EU.

Here is some information regarding the issue of the Ukrainian parliamentary elections to be held on 28 October.