EU-Ukraine Association Agreement to be prepared for ratification soon – Foreign Ministry

14:16, 02.07.2014 1 min read

The technical preparation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement for its subsequent ratification by parliament will be completed in the near future, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said.

"The technical preparation of this document will be completed soon," the director of the ministry's information policy department, Yevhen Perebyinis, told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

He said that the Foreign Ministry, along with other agencies, was already working on the technical preparation of the agreement for the transfer of this document to the president. After that, Perebyinis said, the president will submit the agreement for ratification by the Ukrainian parliament.

As reported, Ukraine and the European Union signed the economic part of the Association Agreement envisaging the creation of a free trade area in Brussels on June 27. The economic part of the agreement foresees Ukraine's deeper economic integration with the EU, as well as the creation of a deep and comprehensive free trade area.