25 Feb 2014 17:31

Ukrainian political leader Yatsenyuk: There should be no secrecy in forming new govt

KYIV. Feb 25 (Interfax) - Arseny Yatsenyuk, the head of the Batkivshchyna party's faction at the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, says there should be no secrecy in forming a new government.

"The main principle is: no backstage dealings in forming a new government," Yatsenyuk said at a plenary parliamentary session in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Yatsenyuk insisted that some protest activists, including Oleh Musiy, Olha Bohomolets, Ihor Lutsenko and others, should be government members.

The Batkivshchyna faction agrees to the principles formulated by protest activists for organizing a new government, Yatsenyuk said. "We fully share these principles," he said.

Yatsenyuk reiterated that a new government should be formed immediately, and, in the current complicated economic situation, this government "should not think about ratings and political activities but only about how to pull the country out of this economic pit."