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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said that it is necessary to invite Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union, Samopomich Party and Oleh Liashko's Radical Party to public talks on the formation of a parliamentary coalition.

He said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko were strategic partners on the formation of the coalition.

He said at a press conference in Kyiv on Oct. 29 that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko were strategic partners on the formation of the coalition.

“I consider it necessary to invite to official and public talks on the formation of the coalition Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko and the Batkivschyna Party, Samopomich and Mr. Andriy Sadovy [Samopomich leader and Lviv mayor], as well as the Radical Party, for which millions of Ukrainians voted,” Yatseniuk said.

He noted that the People’s Front was against the quota principle during the formation of the coalition and the Cabinet of Ministers, “but supports the principle of political responsibility.”