17/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 16 October, External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner welcomed the announced formation of a government coalition in Ukraine. Both pro-western parties (the “Tymoshenko Bloc”” and “Our Ukraine”, the party of President Yushchenko), which won the legislative elections on 30 September with 228 seats out of 450, initialled a coalition agreement on Monday 15 October attributing the post of prime minister to Yulia Tymoshenko. “The future government has important challenges ahead as Ukraine continues down the path of constitutional, political and economic reform”, Ms Ferrero-Waldner says in a press release. (A.B.)