KIEV (AFP) -- Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko warned that he would dissolve parliament if a new governing coalition was not formed or the old one was not revived shortly.

""Negotiations are ongoing and I would like them to bear their fruits shortly. If not, I will use my constitutional right to dissolve the parliament,"" he said in a statement.
The coalition government collapsed in September after Yushchenko's party pulled out in protest at Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's decision to support a bid by the pro-Russian opposition to reduce the president's powers.
Talks on re-establishing the coalition have made little headway since, raising the prospect of new elections, which Tymoshenko warned would likely be won by pro-Russian parties.
Under Ukraine's constitution, the president can dissolve parliament if a new government is not formed within 30 days of the previous one collapsing.
But there is confusion over Yushchenko's deadline to do this because the pro-West leader pulled his party from the ruling coalition on September 3, while parliament officially announced its collapse on September 16.
The president's office has not specified which deadline it favors, but Yushchenko's spokeswoman Irina Vannikova said Friday he is planning to meet his Our Ukraine party members to help form a new coalition.
On Wednesday Tymoshenko said she would accept any conditions to salvage the previous ruling alliance amid fears the Moscow-backed opposition would seize control of parliament.
Yushchenko and Tymoshenko have had a love-hate relationship since 2004, when they joined forces in the so-called Orange Revolution to overturn the rigged election of pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych as president.
Fresh parliamentary elections would be the third in two years for Ukraine and could jeopardize the country's bid to join NATO and the European Union.