Kyiv to hold consultations with EU on effect of Association Agreement in Crimea

The Ukrainian government has instructed the Foreign Ministry, the Justice Ministry and the Economic Development and Trade Ministry to hold consultations with the European External Action Service on determining the effect of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in Crimea.

This is stipulated by Cabinet of Ministers resolution No. 847 of September 17, 2014, through which the government approved an action plan on the implementation of the Association Agreement with the European Union.

"Consultations [will be held] in accordance with the provisions of the final act of June 27, 2014, which was signed along with the Association Agreement, with a view to determining the effect of the agreement regarding illegally annexed territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, which are not properly controlled by the Ukrainian authorities," reads one of the points of the plan.

These consultations should be held until January 2015.