The Senate, the upper house of the French parliament, has voted for the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, Ukraine's Ambassador to France Oleh Shamshur reported.

"The French Senate has voted for the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union," Shamshur wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for European Integration MP Iryna Heraschenko of the Petro Poroshenko Block, who represented the Verkhovna Rada at the debate in the French Senate on Thursday, said that now the agreement is to be ratified by the lower house of the French parliament - the National Assembly, which will happen in June 2015.