Ukraine parliament speaker says emergency session should consider call for government dismissal

Vitali Klitschko (L), head of the parliamentary faction of the UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform) Party, gestures as he speaks to a speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Volodymyr Rybak in parliament in Kiev December 3, 2013. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

KIEV (Reuters) - An emergency session of the Ukrainian parliament, called for by President Viktor Yanukovich on Thursday, should look at all the questions which have arisen in recent unrest including the opposition's demand for the government's dismissal, the parliament speaker said.

"The opposition and the parliamentary majority should come together and consider the questions which have arisen: the resignation of the government and those questions linked to laws passed by parliament," Volodymyr Rybak was quoted as saying on the presidential web site.