By Prensa Latina
Kiev : As Ukrainian communists organized protests Friday, the opposition Party of Regions proposed that Parliament approve an April referendum on the country’s joining NATO.
This faction of former Prime Minister Victor Yakunovich in the Supreme Rada proposes that any action regarding a virtual entry of Ukraine into the Western alliance must first respond to a national consultation.
Deputy chief of the Party of Regions in the Rada, Alexandr Efremov, explained that the initiative calls for President Victor Yuschenko to consider a possible decree on the convening of the proposed referendum in April, an idea supported by other Ukrainian patriotic forces.
Yesterday Yanukovich sent a letter to NATO requesting that military bloc not initiate discussion about Ukraine’s entry supported by Yuschenko and conservative former PM Julia Timoshenko.