Tymoshenko supports joint statement by 3 opposition parties - associates
KHARKIV. Nov 13 (Interfax) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko supports a joint statement by three opposition parties that have won parliamentary mandates, i.e. the United Opposition Batkivshchyna, Vitali Klitschko's UDAR, and Svoboda (Liberty), Tymoshenko's associates said.
"We did discuss this. Yulia Volodymyrivna [Tymoshenko] was interested in knowing details of yesterday's meeting of the joint council of the parties UDAR, Svoboda, and Batkivshchyna, and she said she supported this decision, although she has her own vision. You know, she has said repeatedly that she is starving to fight vote-rigging until these elections are found illegitimate as well as this parliament," Andriy Kozhemyakin, head of the parliamentary faction of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc-Batkivshchyna and Tymoshenko's public defender, told journalists after meeting with Tymoshenko at Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv on Tuesday.
Taking questions from journalists, Kozhemyakin said Tymoshenko had "constructive and productive remarks and objections," of which he said he would tell her opposition partners, without specifying the nature of these remarks and objections.
Other leaders of the United Opposition Batkivshchyna, i.e. Oleksandr Turchynov and Arseny Yatsenyuk, also said Tymoshenko supported the joint statement.
"The main thing that the opposition agreed upon yesterday - and Yulia Volodymyrivna [Tymoshenko] definitely supports this - is consolidation of the three political forces, which was clearly demonstrated yesterday both during the joint meeting and joint rally," Turchynov said.
"The three opposition parties made a clear decision and signed a joint statement yesterday. And all discussions on this issue have been finished," Yatsenyuk said.