The parliament, or the Verkhovna Rada, convened an emergency session on Tuesday, passing a draft resolution to halt the effectiveness of a previous resolution it made on Nov. 27, which overturned the results of presidential elections.

The parliament broke its own words in a way that signaled a backslide from its position on the election results, which was announced by the Central Elections Commission on Nov. 24.

In the meantime, the lawmakers did not vote on a motion filed by the opposition camp to dismiss Yanukovich's government. Thus, Yanukovich survived a no-confidence motion and earned a favorable edge in his confrontation with opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.

Parliament speaker Vladimir Litvin voiced a soothing tone afterthe session, saying that the debate on the no-confidence motion was merely postponed to Wednesday, and the Rada would not cancel the resolution of Nov. 27.

Nevertheless, lawmakers' moves had angered Yushchenko's supporters, and some of them had reportedly attempted to rush intothe parliament.

What's worse, the opposition camp had broken off the talks withthe government over the disputed election polls.

Interfax reported that senior opposition leader Oleksander Zinchenko Tuesday evening urged protesters to resume the blockage of governmental and presidential buildings.

Earlier on Tuesday morning, in the first sign of compromise since the eruption of the election crisis on Nov. 21, the opposition camp ended the blockage of the government building. Themove was partly attributed to the U-turn change in the attitude ofUkrainian President Leonid Kuchma and Yanukovich who agreed to a re-vote.

As the stalemate dragged on into the 9th day, thousands of opposition supporters moved to the parliament and the Supreme Court to show their muscles while the number of protesters in the Independence Square dropped sharply on Tuesday morning.

However, with the balance turning unfavorable to the oppositioncamp, the blockage of the governmental building was resumed and orange protesters returned to the square on Tuesday evening.

To soothe his rival, Yanukovich said he would set up a coalition government and nominate Yushchenko as his prime ministerif the election results are recognized by the opposition camp.

He told the press that he would even amend the Constitution during his term to make the prime minister "Number One" in the Ukrainian political system.

However, he warned that if the Supreme Court ruled that frauds have taken place during the presidential elections in eastern provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk, his camp will file a similar appeal to the court, demanding a review of the elections in western provinces.

If the court rules that the elections are invalid, Yanukovich said he would not take part in the new presidential elections if his rival Yushchenko did so.

According to Yanukovich, currently the talks between two camps had come to a halt, but he said his camp was willing to go back tothe negotiation table.

As tensions grew over the deadlock, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana flew to Kiev on Tuesday night to mediate again. He, together with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, are expected to talk with all parties involved in theelection standoff.

At the Supreme Court, the hearings on the appeal of election frauds filed by the opposition camp entered into the second day.

As the judiciary procedures are time-consuming, even the lawyers representing the opposition camp acknowledged that the case would take "two or three weeks".

"If everything goes smoothly, the election will be held in the middle of December," said Oleksiy Syvak, a law expert graduated from the international law department of the Kiev University, in an interview with Xinhua.

As autonomy was spoken out in eastern industrial provinces, Ukraine's major security agency on Tuesday opened a criminal investigation into threats against the country's territorial integrity in eastern Ukraine.

According to Interfax, Donetsk Governor Anatoliy Bliznyuk said on Tuesday his region's referendum on self-rule would not take place as planned on Dec. 5, stressing that they were seeking "not autonomy, but to become a republic within Ukraine."

In western Ukraine, bankers on Tuesday urged the residents not to panic and withdraw their savings from bank accounts, accusing some politicians of making statements that had triggered instability in the banking market.

Local media reported that residents in western Ukraine were trying to transfer their hrivna accounts into dollar or euro accounts, aiming to preserve their savings from depreciation.