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Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the Ukrainian opposition party Batkivschyna and a former prime minister, will appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office once again on Wednesday to let her travel to Brussels to attend a summit of the European People's Party (EPP).

In commenting on President Viktor Yanukovych’s remarks to the effect that it was the Prosecutor General’s Office that was unreasonably barring her from traveling, Tymoshenko said, "Yanukovych’s outrage sounds nice, but prosecution officials in fact told me that they would personally let me go to Brussels if not for the presidential ban against my traveling on any circumstances."

Tymoshenko said the EPP president invited her in a Tuesday telephone conversation to attend the party’s summit in Brussels.

"I have accepted this invitation. I have been summoned to the Prosecutor General’s Office by noon tomorrow, and I will definitely file a written petition to permit my trip to the summit," she said.

Tymoshenko said she would present a detailed report on the situation in Ukraine to convince the EU leaders that Ukraine is a key country among the former Soviet republics.

She also said she would do all she could to convince European politicians that Ukraine can make the right steps and show that democracy and freedom can be built and that a European choice should be put into practice.

Tymoshenko said she hoped Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka would listen to the president’s opinion on the matter. "I think his [Yanukovych’s] specific relative Pshonka will listen to this," she said.

The Batkivschyna leader is currently figuring in two criminal cases as a suspect and has been barred from traveling.