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A close ally of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych said onMar. 3talks on forming a new coalition should be finalised within days after parliament dismissed the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

"The talks are not simple but I think they will be finalised in the coming days," Mykola Azarov, a former finance minister and a likely candidate for the prime minister’s post, told journalists.