President Viktor Yushchenko considers the joint participation in the elections of the "People's Union 'Our Ukraine'", the "Batkivshchyna" party and the People's Party "original." \n \nToday "it is original to be together, it is unoriginal to go separately to the 2006 elections," he told journalists on Sunday in Kaniv, reports "Interfax-Ukraine." \n \n"I am convinced that the orange revolution, the values with which we went to the Kyiv maidan, truly belong to these three political forces. This is the worldview with which we went and fought. I cannot imagine how this worldview can be divided into political compartments," said Yushchenko. \n \nAccording to him, each of these political forces "has its own history, its own peculiarities." "I am convinced that what unites us, as in November of last year, so today, is the hope that there will be a free, independent, rich Ukraine. We did not come to steal, we did not come to divide someone's combines, someone's factories, we represent honest power and we want to do this work on truth, on agreement," said Yushchenko. \n \nAccording to him, it is necessary to step over pride, "to unite for the sake of tomorrow." \n \nIn turn, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko noted that it is precisely on days like the anniversary of Shevchenko's reburial that "it is awkward to think about something petty, about some fuss, intrigues that hinder the team's work." \n \n"The most important thing is to feel great responsibility. This is responsibility before every person in Ukraine. And therefore nothing will prevent us from being worthy of this responsibility, this faith," she said, adding: "Therefore I, for example, with all my soul support our unity, our team work, our political activity together for many years ahead." \n \nVerkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn also emphasized the need for consolidation. "Today we must realize the third unique chance to create the state of Ukraine. If we lose this chance, we will be cursed forever, and we are simply obliged, doomed to be together," he said. \n \nThe speaker added that to realize Ukraine's great prospects it is necessary "not only to swear loyalty to Taras Shevchenko, but to live and love Ukraine, because Taras Hryhorovych loved it, and also to consolidate on the main, the principled." \n \nAs BBC recalls, Tarasova Hill in Kaniv is not for the first time acting as a place of unifying political initiatives. \n \nIn 1999, it was in Kaniv that Oleksandr Moroz, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Yevhen Marchuk and Volodymyr Oliinyk announced their intention to run in the presidential elections, who later became known as the "Kaniv four."