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Ukrainian Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha has called for Ukraine to switch to summer time in March 2012.

"In my personal opinion, we need to be synchronous with Europe, as Ukraine is going to the EU. Therefore, if Europe puts the clocks forward on the last Sunday in March, then Ukraine should do this as well," he said in an interview with Weekly.ua, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry reported.

Baloha said that there were a number of arguments for the cancellation of the switch to summer time.

He said that experts had enough time to study this issue and take a well-thought-out decision. In particular, the Emergencies Ministry and experts will put forward their proposals for a respective bill, he said.