10:16 23.10.2015

Kyiv waiting for ratification of Ukraine-EU Association with all EU countries by late 2015 - Yatseniuk

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Kyiv waiting for ratification of Ukraine-EU Association with all EU countries by late 2015 - Yatseniuk

Ukraine is expecting that all member states of the European Union will ratify the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement by the end of 2015, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

"Our European agenda foresees that we expect that by the end of the year all member states of the European Union will ratify the Association Agreement with Ukraine," he said at a meeting with Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel on Thursday in Kyiv.

Yatseniuk expressed hope that the referendum to be held in the Netherlands won’t be an impediment in the Ukraine’s path towards the EU.

The prime minister said that the technical work being done by the Ukrainian government with the European Commission "allows saying that the monitoring mission has all chances to arrive at a positive conclusion as to the Ukraine’s progress towards visa-free travel."

Yatseniuk said that this decision will be based solely on technical inspection of conformity of Ukraine all the criteria for visa-free regime, and not on any political motivations.

The Prime Minister also reminded that the agreement on free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union shall come into force on January 1, 2016 and any third country should have no right to influence the validity of this agreement.

Bettel said that the situation in Ukraine is difficult and it is important to focus on one project, which UN believes to be the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

Bettel said that the EU would fulfill its liabilities to Ukraine.

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