Polish president calls on Ukraine to focus on presidential election

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski has called on Ukraine to focus on the new presidential election and to put other problems such as the resignation of the government and constitutional reforms on the back burner. Speaking during an official visit to Prague, where he arrived just hours after mediating talks in crisis-hit Ukraine, Mr Kwasniewski said the election was the key to unlocking the situation in the country.

The political crisis in Ukraine was one of the main topics of debate with leading Czech officials during President Kwasniewski's one day visit to the Czech Republic. The two countries have traditionally good relations and cooperate closely within the Visegrad Group, a lose alliance of central European states. At Prague Castle President Kwasniewski was decorated with the Order of the White Lion, the highest Czech state distinction.