European Union Steps Up Efforts to End Ukrainian Vote Deadlock
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The European Union intensified its efforts to resolve the crisis over Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election, with missions to Kiev by the presidents of Poland and Lithuania and EU foreign policy envoy Javier Solana.
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Poland formally told its European  Union partners it could not accept a reformed voting system  enshrined in the defunct EU constitution, raising the prospect  of a crisis at a crucial summit later this week.
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International mediators will step up  efforts on Wednesday to resolve Ukraine's 10-day-old crisis  over a disputed presidential election after the collapse of  talks between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions.
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Ukraine's parliament meets on Saturday to debate a disputed presidential election a day after Western mediators trying to end the turmoil gripping major cities managed to persuade the two rivals to start talks.
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Poland signaled on Wednesday it could accept a European Union voting system it has battled against for months, provided it receives a stronger say in the 27-nation bloc's deliberations.
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Ukraine's top court convenes on Monday to try to end an election crisis that threatens to break up the country and is straining relations between Russia and the West.
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Increasing the pressure on the European Union, President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine said that Kiev would file an application to join the bloc "in the near future."
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Three envoys fly to Ukraine on Friday to try to resolve the crisis triggered by opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's campaign to overturn presidential election results he says are fraudulent.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament adopted electoral and constitutional changes Wednesday in a compromise intended to defuse the nation&#39;s political crisis - prompting opposition leaders to say they would lift a blockade of government buildings.
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1 December 2004 -- Foreign mediators are launching fresh efforts today to resolve the Ukrainian political crisis sparked by a contested presidential election.
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Poland vowed on Friday to reopen debate  on an EU treaty deal to ensure it gets the concessions it wants  on voting rights, clashing again with European partners who say  those discussions are over.
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The European Union said Friday that the move by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to form a national unity government was a welcome bid to end the deadlock created by January's election victory by the Hamas movement.
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Poland vowed to reopen debate on an EU treaty deal to ensure it gets the concessions it wants on voting rights on Friday, clashing again with European partners who say those discussions are over.
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The EU's Javier Solana and other envoys go to Ukraine to try to mediate in the crisis over the disputed election.
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Since seceding from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has tried to balance its close ties with Russia with its aspirations of broader cooperation with the European Union (EU).
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Ukraine's parliament adopted a package of electoral and constitutional changes Wednesday in a compromise aimed at defusing the nation's political crisis less than three weeks before a rerun of the disputed presidential vote.
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The European Parliament has called on Ukraine&#39;s government to run a clean presidential election Sunday, the Moscow Times said this weekend.