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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received an application to include former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko on the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize, Leader of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party MP Natalia Korolevska (a member of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction in the parliament) has said.

According to Korolevska, one of employees of the secretariat confirmed by phone that the Nobel Committee had received the application. According to the procedure, a letter with official confirmation will be sent in March.

She also reported the beginning of work of a public campaign to support Tymoshenko’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in Ukraine and at the international level.

"The public campaign to support the nomination of Yulia Tymoshenko for the Nobel Peace Prize will continue until the official announcement of the laureates of the prize. We will do everything we can for the leader of the Ukrainian opposition, Yulia Tymoshenko, to receive the peace prize in 2012," Korolevska said.