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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, second from left, met with his predecessors Tuesday in a televised bid to try to defuse ongoing protests in Kiev.
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Kiev, Ukraine Aiming to defuse a political standoff that threatens his leadership, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych called Tuesday for the release of the demonstrators arrested in the massive protests sweeping Kiev and vowed that Ukraine is still interested in integrating with Europe. His efforts, however, stopped far short of opposition demands that his government resign, and the two sides appeared no closer to a resolution that would chart out a secure future for their economically troubled nation. Soon after Yanukovych spoke in a televised broadcast, top opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told demonstrators on Kiev’s central square that the protest leaders were still insisting on their key demands: that Yanukovych fire the government,
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appoint a new one committed to signing an association agreement with the EU, release all the arrested protesters, and punish the police who beat peaceful demonstrators. Yanukovych indicated he was still willing to sign the EU deal, but only if the EU can offer better financial terms. “We want to achieve conditions that satisfy Ukraine, Ukrainian producers, the Ukrainian people,” Yanukovych said in a televised meeting with his three predecessors, which aimed to find a solution to the standoff. But Yanukovych appeared unreceptive to the criticism voiced by Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president after the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, who said that beating protesters was unacceptable. “Law enforcement must know that it is forbidden to beat people. And there can be no justification for anyone” who does so, Kravchuk said. Yanukovych insisted both sides were guilty. MARIA DANILOVA (AP)
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