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Negotiators in Kiev agree to initial agreement to settle crisis

KIEV, February 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Negotiators in Ukraine have agreed to initial the agreement to settle the crisis, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich’s press office reports. The document is expected to be signed at 12:00 local time (10:00 GMT).

The report says that Viktor Yanukovich, opposition politicians Arseny Yatsenyuk, Oleg Tyagnibok and Vitali Klitschko, German and Polish Foreign Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Radoslaw Sikorski, as well as Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin are participating in the talks.

Earlier, Steinmeier and Sikorski said another meeting with the president was scheduled in the following hours, but declined to elaborate. Head of the EU delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski confirmed that another meeting would take place.