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The international community is ready to cooperate with the new Ukrainian leadership to achieve stability and implement reforms. The ambassadors of the Group of Eight and the European Union have told Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych that the international community is ready to cooperate with the new Ukrainian leadership to achieve stability and implement reforms.

These issues were discussed at a meeting between the ambassadors and the president in Kyiv on Wednesday, the presidential press service reported.

The diplomats said that all steps taken by Ukraine with respect to democratization and reform would get maximum support from the G8 and EU countries.

They also said it was important that President Yanukovych had meet with them before signing a law on the Verkhovna Rada's regulations and called on him to ask the Constitutional Court to urgently consider the issue and publish a report on the legitimacy of any coalition and government that are created under new conditions.

Yanukovych, in turn, informed the diplomats about the process of creating a parliamentary coalition and a new government and spoke about the various options for the development of the country's political situation in the future.