KYIV. April 18 (Interfax) - Ukraine's acting president and parliament speaker, Oleksandr Turchynov, has announced that the opposition factions in the Verkhovna Rada did not support a draft address to the country's people calling for a peaceful settlement in the east of the country.
"We submitted our proposals, but our colleagues from the opposition have not supported them so far," Turchynov said at a parliamentary session on Friday.
Turchynov said that he personally and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk would deliver this address.
The acting head of the Batkivshchyna party's parliamentary faction, Serhiy Sobolev, for his part, claims that the Communist Party's faction refuses to take part in negotiations to sign the Verkhovna Rada's address to the Ukrainian people.
"They altogether do not want to participate in these talks," he told reporters in Kyiv on Friday.