(KIEV) - Ukraine would turn its back on European integration if it held early elections, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Friday, predicting that pro-Western parties would lose.

"It would represent a 180-degree turn away from European integration and reforms inside the country," Tymoshenko said in an interview with Western news agencies.

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