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Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko held a telephone conversation with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country holds the European Union's rotating presidency, and proposed to hold in Prague an urgent meeting of all participants of the Russian-Ukrainian gas conflict with leaders of EU states, Kaczynski's office said late on Wednesday

“On January 14 in Wisla, presidents Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and Lech Kaczynski of Poland talked on the telephone with the prime minister of the Czech Republic Mirek Topolanek,” reads the statement. “The presidents proposed to organize in Prague an urgent meeting of all sides of the gas conflict with leaders of EU states in order to resolve the crisis.”

Yushchenko and Kaczynski held talks on Wednesday in the presidential residence in the mountain resort town of Wisla in southern Poland, near the Czech and Slovak border