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President Viktor Yanukovych said Ukraine will soon resolve friction with the European Union over jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko even as prosecutors threaten to imprison her for life for alleged murder.

“We can’t fail to react to the EU’s constant criticism on this question,” Yanukovych said today in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, before a Feb. 25 summit in Brussels with the 27-member bloc. “It’s taking time to ensure the solutions we adopt in the near future are in accordance with our legal and judicial framework.”

The EU will keep plans to bolster ties with the former Soviet republic on hold until the government ends concerns over selective justice with regard to Tymoshenko, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite told the same news conference.

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