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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has denied media reports that Ukrainian presidential chief-of-staff Andriy Kliuyev allegedly visited her at Kharkiv's Hospital No. 5.

“Next day when Andriy Kliuyev really visits me Yanukovych will have to recognize me a party of negotiations. You understand well that this is deadly dangerous for them. Don’t believe rumors and gossips,” she said in an exclusive interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Ukraine weekly posted on its Web site.

“I have strong hopes that in the near term the European court will issue a fair ruling in my case and I will meet not only Kliuyev in prison, but Viktor Yanukovych if I find him somewhere,” she added.

As reported, Ukrainian media outlets reported earlier, citing a source in an opposition faction’s leadership, that Kliuyev had visited Tymoshenko last week. The source claimed that Kliuyev and Tymoshenko had discussed a potential joint search for a way out of the country’s crisis, as well as the possibility of the Party of Regions and Batkivschyna joining forces in the Verkhovna Rada.

Tymoshenko’s lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotniuk, Ihor Kolpaschykov, director of the Kachanivska penitentiary, and Kliuyev’s spokesman, Artem Petrenko, denied the information.