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The new president must take a decision and hold the all-Ukrainian referendum on NATO, according to Symonenko. The new president must take a decision and hold the all-Ukrainian referendum on NATO and a common market with Russia and other countries, leader of the Communists Party Petro Symonenko said at a sitting of the Ukrainian parliament's conciliatory council.

Symonenko said that a relevant draft law to hold a national referendum on a public initiative regarding Ukraine's joining NATO and the single economic space had been registered in the parliament.

"An all-Ukrainian referendum must be held. There was the will of our people and this must be resolved," the leader of the communists said.

According to him, President Viktor Yuschenko postponed the all-Ukrainian referendum and, thus, violated the Constitution, but the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine must express its will once more and "demand that the new president take this decision."