2006-06-23 Tymoshenko's orange revolution 2.0New Ukrainian PM Issues Ultimatum on Natural GasThe formation of an Orange governing coalition was officially announced in Ukraine yesterday. It will consist of the Yulia Timoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine and the Socialist Party. Yulia Timoshenko will occupy the post of prime minister. She has already announced that agreements with Russia and Turkmenistan on natural gas, which were signed by former prime minister Yury Ekhanurov and supported by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, will be reconsidered. Gazprom spokesman Sergey Kupriyanov called her intentions “the path to a new gas crisis.”
imoshenko stated in the corridor of the Supreme Rada that “all agreements on natural gas supplies to Ukraine today require additional deep revision, reconsideration and restructuring within a friendly regime of new agreement relations with Russia and Turkmenistan.” Thus, she has shown that she still intends to pursue policies independent of Yushchenko.
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