UKRAINE: WORKING PARTY SET UP TO REACH DECISION ON DISPUTED ELECTION/ OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYS CRISIS MUST BE RESOLVED WITH DAYS
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UKRAINE: WORKING PARTY SET UP TO REACH DECISION ON DISPUTED ELECTION/ OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYS CRISIS MUST BE RESOLVED WITH DAYS
- Title: UKRAINE: WORKING PARTY SET UP TO REACH DECISION ON DISPUTED ELECTION/ OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYS CRISIS MUST BE RESOLVED WITH DAYS
- Date: 26th November 2004
- Summary: (U7) KIEV, UKRAINE (NOVEMBER 26, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT SCENES) 1. VARIOUS OF CROWDS OF OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS GATHERED AROUND STATUE NEAR KIEV'S MARIINSKY PALACE WAVING VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL FLAGS 0.07 2. WIDE OF DEMONSTRATORS WITH UKRAINIAN FLAGS CHANTING AND SINGING 0.17 3. PAN OF OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS SINGING 0.24 4. WIDE OF MARIINSKY PALACE WITH SNOW 0.27 5. WIDE OF POLITICANS ATTENDING THE TALKS ON THE DISPUTED ELECTION 0.36 6. SMV PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR YANUKOVITCH AND JAVIER SOLANA, EUROPEAN UNION POLICY CHIEF 0.44 7. WIDE OF POLISH PRESIDENT ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI, OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO, KUCHMA AND YANUKOVITCH 0.56 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA SAYING: "To oversee the negotioating process, the sides have created a working group to reach a joint decision to resolve the political crisis. The group will start working today." 1.10 9. SCU VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO LISTENING 1.14 10. WIDE OF UKRAIN IAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA SPEAKING 1.20 11. SCU PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR YANUKOVICH LISTENING 1.24 12. SLV KWASNIEWSKI AND YUSHCHENKO LISTENING 1.32 13. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA SAYING: "In front of you here, I want to shake hands once morewith Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovich. Hoping that with my help and with the help of speaker of parliament we will without any doubt find a worthy way out of this complicated situation. We understand that we have but one Ukraine and if we fail to find a solution, the consequences will be most unfavourable for the Ukranian people." 1.38 14. PULLOUT TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE TALKS SHAKING HANDS 2.19 15. SCU SOLANA 2.23 16. SLV KUCHMA SHAKING HANDS WITH PARTICIPANTS , THEN SOLANA SHAKING HANDS WITH YUSHCHENKO AND KWASNIEWSKI , PARTICIPANTS LEAVING HALL 2.49 17. WIDE OF PROTESTERS OUTSIDE PALACE WITH KUCHMA'S CONVOY LEAVING/ CROWD SHOUTING "DOWN WITH KUCHMA" WAVING UKRAINIAN AND OPPOSITION FLAGS 2.58 18. SLV GATES TO MARIINSKY PALACE OPENING / OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO WALKING THROUGH GATES 3.06 19. VARIOUS OF YUSHCHENKO GREETING CROWDS WODS AS HE LEAVES 3.12 20. WIDE OF OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS CHEERING , CHANTING "YUSHCHENKO" WAVING FLAGS 3.22 21. CLOSE OF YUSHCHENKO GREETING SUPPORTERS,SHAKING THEIR HANDS 3.37 22. WIDE OF YUSHCHENKOI SURROUDED BY SUPPORTERS 3.38 (W8) KIEV, UKRAINE (NOVEMBER 26, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 23. WIDE VIEWS OF OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS AT RALLY IN KIEV'S INDEPENDENCE SQUARE 3.44 24. WIDE OF OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO WALKING ONTO STAGE TO SPEAK TO SUPPORTERS AFTER A DAY OF TALKS WITH MEDIATORS IN KIEV 3.55 25. ZOOM INTO SCU YUSHCHENKO WAVING AT CROWD 4.01 26. WIDE OF OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS WITH BANNERS 4.06 27. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO ON STAGE AT RALLY AND SAYING: "We are sure that any deals about forming a government, any deal on sharing posts in government, any deals on political reform, will not resolve the political crisis which we face today; because this crisis has come about through falsification of elections. That is why the answer has to come in the shape of a new vote. There is no other way." 4.34 28. WIDE VIEW OF STAGE/ YUSHCHENKO AND AIDES ON STAGE 4.42 29. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO ON STAGE AT RALLY AND SAYING: "My order, my request, my prayer to you is this: mnobody must leave this square until victory." 5.03 30. WIDE OF RALLY/ CROWDS WAVING FLAGS 5.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Reuters ID: LVA5ZVJUJ9M4CZS06W409RXF9YGY
- Story Text: Working group set up to look at Ukraine poll crisis.
The candidates in Ukraine's disputed presidential
election and mediators said on Friday (November 26), they
had set up a working group for further talks, but reached
no other agreement on resolving the crisis gripping the country.
Outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovich, declared winner of the
election, and liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko had
agreed to set the working group in motion immediately.
Both sides agreed to renounce violence.
"To oversee the negotioating process, the sides have
created a working group to reach a joint decision to
resolve the political crisis," Kuchma said after 2-1/2
hours of talks in the Mariinsky presidential palace.
"The group is to start working today ... We will
without any doubt find a worthy way out of this complicated
situation. We understand that we have but one Ukraine and
if we fail to find a solution, the consequences will be
most unfavourable."
Yushchenko beamed as he shook hands with supporters
massed outside the palace, while Yanukovich, looking
disgruntled after the talks, left the palace without comment.
The meeting followed a fifth straight day of mass
street protests in the capital Kiev by supporters of
West-leaning Yushchenko who says the victory of
Moscow-backed Yanukovich in Sunday's election was rigged.
Afterwards Viktor Yushchenko, backed by tens of
thousands of supporters said the political crisis had to be
resolved within days, adding he had rejected a proposal by
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, declared the winner of
the poll, to submit irregularities to the courts.
"We are sure that any deals about forming a government,
any deal on sharing posts in government, any deals on
political reform, will not resolve the political crisis
which we face today; because this crisis has come about
through falsification of elections. That is why the answer
has to come in the shape of a new vote. There is no other
way," the West-leaning Yushchenko told tens of thousands of
backers in Kiev's Independence Square.
"My order, my request, my prayer to you is this: nobody
must leave this square until victory," said Yushchenko, to
loud cheers from the crowd.
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