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Some of the Ukrainian political parties and public organizations want to hand a demand to President Viktor Yanukovych on April 27 to scrap the "Kharkiv agreements" on gas with Russia, Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Parubiy of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense faction, said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

"On April 27, public organizations, on the initiative of the Opir movement, will organize a march from the Verkhovna Rada to the presidential administration, where a picket will be held and the demand to denounce the Kharkiv agreements will be handed to the president," Parubiy said.

He also said that a congress of the Our Ukraine party will be held at the walls of the parliament building on April 27, whose resolution will demand the denunciation of the agreements with Russia.

The Kharkiv agreements are a threat to Ukraine’s national-economic security and go against the constitution, while ratification of these agreements proceeded with flagrant violations of parliamentary regulations, he said.