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A meeting of the political council of the Our Ukraine party will be held on February 9, a member of the political council, Iryna Vannykova, told Interfax-Ukraine.

“An extended meeting was held, where a meeting of the political council was scheduled for February 9,” Vannykova said.

She said that on Saturday more than 50 people supporting the party
leader, Ukraine’s President (2005-2010) Viktor Yuschenko, came to the
meeting. “More than 50 people came, but not all of them are members of
the political council, a single vote was lacking for holding the
meeting. We had 47, and the quorum is 48. We decided to hold an extended
meeting,” Vannykova said.

According to her, Yuschenko announced that on February 9 at a meeting
of the party’s political council he will announce the plan of the
country’s withdrawal from the crisis.