KIEV, January 13 (RIA Novosti) - European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana pledged the European Union's support to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in a telephone conversation Friday, following the recent dismissal of the country's government, Ukraine's presidential press service said.
Solana "gave his assurance of the European community's support in the Ukrainian leadership's steps to stabilize the situation in the country, and in its reform progress," the press service said.
He also congratulated the president on the successful completion of Russian-Ukrainian talks on over Russian gas supplies to its neighbor and the signing of agreements.
The Supreme Rada, Ukraine's parliament, made a decision Tuesday to dismiss the government over the gas agreements signed with Russia on January 4, 2006, which critics said were economically damaging to Ukraine, and ceded too much leverage to Moscow.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has declared the Supreme Rada's move "unconstitutional."
