(VOVworld) – A third national unity roundtable meeting opened Wednesday in Nikolayev, Ukraine, to seek a solution to Ukraine’s crisis.

The third national unity roundtable meeting opened in Nikolayev, Ukraine, on Wednesday.

Ukraine’s former President Leonid Kravchuk said the key issues now are ending the bloody violence and preserving Ukraine’s unity. Envoy Wolfgang Oschinger of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said a memorandum on peace and reconciliation approved by the Ukrainian Parliament on Tuesday was the first practical result of the dialogue. He said the national dialogue was important as Ukraine approaches a presidential election on Sunday. Oschinger called on the Ukrainian people to respect and protect democracy for the up-coming presidential election.