Ukraine’s President Open To Early Vote, Polish Leader Says; Scores Reported Killed In Clashes
Source: Washington Post
KIEV, Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has told European foreign ministers that he is open to early presidential and parliamentary elections as a way of resolving Ukraines deepening and increasingly violent crisis, the Polish prime minister said Thursday evening in Warsaw, according to news services.
Yanukovych met with the top diplomats of Poland, France and Germany for four hours in the afternoon, after which his visitors left to confer with opposition leaders.
Radislaw Sikorski, of Poland, tweeted that they went to test a proposed agreement with the heads of the three main political parties opposing Yanukovych. Afterward, as it grew late, the three returned to the presidential offices and met with Yanukovych again.
Sikorski tweeted that the mood in Yanukovychs executive office building when they arrived for the initial meeting was panicky, with detonations nearby and black smoke swirling outside. He said they moved their meeting to another building.
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