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A radical group called the Right Sector has demanded that the authorities and opposition resume the negotiating process of resolving the domestic situation before a new parliamentary session which opens on Feb. 4.

“Given that neither the authorities, nor the opposition have reached any agreements for settling the domestic crisis and are driving the country to the brink of war, we as representatives of the Maidan who have sought from the first days the right to freedom, justice and welfare, i.e. Afghan war veterans, The Right Sector and other representatives of the Maidan forces, are urging the authorities and opposition to resume the negotiating process before the start of another session of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada,” one of the Right Sector leaders Dmytro Yarosh said in a video appeal on the Internet.

In the event of a release of all arrested protestors without exception, the group will be ready for a certain compromise, i.e. to leave Hrushevskoho Street and to return to their initial positions on Maidan, he said.

“We demand that the authorities and opposition include representatives of Afghan war veterans, the Right Sector and other participants of the Maidan, in the talks over resolving the domestic crisis,” Yarosh said.

“If our demands are not accepted, we reserve the right to independent adequate actions,” he said.