Saturday 26 September 2009

Bloc will call for referendum on NATO and Russian language status



The bloc of leftists is planning to call for a referendum on a Common Economic Space (CES), Ukraine's attitude to NATO and the Russian language stats, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko has said.
"We'll definitely hold a referendum on three issues a Common Economic Space (CES), Ukraine's attitude to NATO and the Russian language status," the party's press service quoted him as saying on Thursday.
Symonenko said that leftist bloc members would call for Russian to be rendered the national status in Ukraine.
As reported, the leaders of four parties Petro Symonenko (the Communist Party), Yuriy Zahorodniy (the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)), Stanislav Nikolayenko (the Justice Party), and Vasyl Volha (the Union of Leftists) signed the agreement an agreement on creating the bloc of leftists and center leftists at a meeting in Kyiv on September 14.
At the same time, the leaders of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) and the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) Natalia Vitrenko and Oleksandr Moroz – refused to join the union.
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