17 December 2008, 09:34
Mykola Tomenko: the Coalition Agreement is a Common Achievement of Four Political Forces at the Parliament
Mykola Tomenko, Vice-Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, commented on the promulgation of the Agreement on Creation of the Coalition of "National Development, Stability and Order" in the official edition of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Thus, Mykola Tomenko stated that the said Agreement had been discussed by experts and politicians of four parliamentary Factions: the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, "Our Ukraine-People´s Self-Defence", the Lytvyn Bloc and the Party of Regions.
The Coalition Agreement includes the list of priorities and tasks that were upheld by all the above-mentioned Factions.
However, Mykola Tomenko expressed his astonishment with the attitude of certain political forces that took part in the elaboration of the Coalition Agreement towards the document signed.
Thus, the Vice-Chairman stated that the experts of the Party of Regions proposed a great number of ideas of socio-economic character. "Therefore, at present it is strange that this political force should declare that the Agreement "fails to present a substantial program of overcoming the crisis, and is based on the ideological concepts formulated by the supporters of the NATO and forced Ukrainization".
Mykola Tomenko is also surprised by an inconsequent position of some Deputies-members of "Our Ukraine-People´s Self-Defence" who insisted that the Coalition should include regulations concerning humanitarian and foreign policy, and refused to sign the document after their motions had been taken into consideration.
"After such a common work upon the Coalition Agreement, it would be logical for all the Verkhovna Rada Factions to vote at least for those socio-economic topics that are urgent and have been elaborated by all the political forces in the period of formation of a new parliamentary coalition", - summarized Mykola Tomenko.