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An agreement intended to help resolve the crisis in Ukraine is expected to be initialed at the Ukrainian presidential administration headquarters at noon on Friday, the presidential press service has reported.  

 
Negotiations between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, opposition leaders, European Union and Russian representatives have been completed, it said.

The negotiations that lasted 8 hours involved opposition leaders Arseniy Yatseniuk, Oleh Tiahnybok and Vitali Klitschko, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and Russian Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.