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Representatives of the parties Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, the Samopomich Union, the Radical Party of Liashko, and Batkivschyna have signed a coalition agreement.

The coalition agreement was signed in the presence of the media at a press conference by Volodymyr Hroisman and Yuriy Lutsenko of Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Arseniy Yatseniuk of People’s Front, Yulia Tymoshenko of Batkivschyna, Oksana Syroid of Samopomich, and Oleh Liashko of the Radical Party.

The given coalition agreement will help Verkhovna Rada to form a new government even in the first days of its work, Ukrainian Deputy Premier Volodymyr Hroisman said.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk reiterated that the coalition agreement is the basic document for reform.

“This agreement envisages reforms that are complex and painful, but needed for the state. There may be applause, but definitely not in the very near future – it has to be earned,” he said.