Ukraine's President Yanukovych offers PM position to opposition leader

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Source: BBC

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych has offered the position of prime minister to an opposition leader, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Mr Yatsenyuk is from jailed ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko's party.

The offer came after talks on Saturday with opposition leaders in a new effort to end worsening unrest that is spreading across the country.

The interior minister earlier said efforts to resolve the crisis peacefully were "futile".

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1. I hope this at least ratchets down the tension

enough to lead to further developments.

Or it could be an empty offer. But it sounds promising.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Ukraine crisis: Opposition rejects offer of PM post

Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk says protests will continue after he rejected President Viktor Yanukovych's offer to appoint him as prime minister of the country.

Mr Yatsenyuk said the opposition was generally ready to accept leadership, but several key demands must be met, including new elections.

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He offered the post of prime minister to Mr Yatsenyuk and the position of deputy PM to former boxer Vitali Klitschko following talks on Saturday.

But the BBC's David Stern, in Kiev, says the opposition - confident in its position - appears to have taken these offers as a sign of weakness on Mr Yanukovych's part, and is forging ahead with the campaign to unseat him.

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