A group of international mediators attempting to resolve the political crisis in Ukraine may meet for a third time next week, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Thursday.
"There is a possibility there will be a third meeting of the round table next week," Solana told reporters in Luxembourg after meeting Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.
Mediators including Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Solana, and Russian State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov met on Wednesday in Kiev with key Ukrainian political figures after a first meeting last Friday.
Ukraine has been in turmoil since the presidential election in which both Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and his liberal reformist opponent Viktor Yushchenko have claimed victory.
The group of international mediators have been attempting to defuse tensions and find a way out of the crisis.
Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma, still in office until a successor can be found, agreed on Thursday to sack Yanukovich's government if parliament went ahead with reforms to reduce the power of the presidency.
Solana said he favoured moves to turn Ukraine more towards a parliamentary system of government with reduced presidential powers.