Victor Yushchenko’s exclusive interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday focused on home and foreign issues, according to the President`s press-office.

The President said Ukraine’s leading political forces must unite to protect national interests, which he described as “the only right path to stability.”

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The government and its head, he said, must be the country’s stabilizing factor.

“I am certainly disappointed that [Prime Minister] Viktor Yanukovych has not fulfilled any clause of the [National Unity] Pact. I am convinced the Prime Minister is the first person who needs this document. However, if his point of view is different, I can only feel sorry,” he said.

Mr. Yushchenko said it was “very dangerous” for the head of the government, who is in charge of the country`s social and economic development, to “play political games.” 

“One has to work sometimes,” he said.

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