Ukraine's acting president and Verkhovna Rada speaker, Oleksandr Turchynov, has authorized Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk to sign the political section of Ukraine's Association Agreement with the European Union on March 21.

Turchynov's instruction issued to Yatseniuk was published on the acting president's Web site on March 19.

According to the document, Yatseniuk, acting on behalf of Ukraine, will have to sign the final act of a special Ukraine-EU summit and the political section of the sides' Association Agreement accompanied by a statement saying: "The Obligations of Ukraine assumed under Article 8 of the Agreement concerning the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Code of 1998 will be fulfilled following the introduction of appropriate amendments into the Constitution of Ukraine."

The political part of the agreement is expected to be signed at a special Ukraine-EU summit in Brussels on March 21.

The document will carry the signatures of 30 EU officials, among them European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.