Three Ex-Presidents of Ukraine and December First Initiative Group Discussed Ways to Overcome Crisis in Ukraine
On Thursday, December 12, three ex-presidents of Ukraine – Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, and Viktor Yushchenko – met with members of the First of December initiative group. This was reported on the website of the Presidential Fund of Leonid Kuchma.
The three former presidents and the activists discussed ways to overcome the crisis and ways to improve the dialogue between the government and the people.
This is the second meeting of former presidents of Ukraine with the public. The day before they met with intellectuals, church leaders, and artists, who invited them to a dialogue.
As noted, members of the First of December initiative group want to engage in the dialogue a wide range of participants, representatives, and supporters of different political parties.
Kuchma supports their initiative to achieve civil peace and the development of ways to further develop Ukraine.
Earlier Yanukovych invited all political forces, the civil society, and the clergy to the national dialogue. On December 11, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych promised her to take action that day to address the crisis in Ukraine, Korrespondent.net informs.
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The First of December initiative group is an association set up in 2011 on the 20th anniversary of the referendum on the independence of Ukraine by distinguished intellectuals and community leaders in response to a statement by the three traditional Ukrainian churches (the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church). The basis of the program documents is a declaration with the basic principles for the unification of the Ukrainian people, and the Charter of a Free Person, which represents the guidelines for the Ukrainian society.
