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Ukraine - EU agreement could be 'milestone' in regional cooperation

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Peter Gentle 15.10.2013 09:30
The future of Eastern Partnership after next month’s summit in Vilnius has been the subject of a conference in London attended by foreign ministers of Poland, Great Britain and Lithuania.

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Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, UK undersecretary of state David Lidington and Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkeviczius issued a joint communiqué after the meeting saying that if Ukraine signs an association agreement with the European Union at the summit at the end of November, and similar agreements are made with two other ex-Soviet states, Moldova and Georgia, it would be milestones in the process of strengthening the EU’s relations with the countries of Central and eastern Europe.

The ministers stressed that EU’s eastern partners have already introduced meaningful, irreversible and lasting political reforms, which will be beneficial for their citizens.

The communiqué speaks of respect for the rule of law as one of the key elements of building prosperity in the European Union.

The continued imprisonment of Ukraine’s former prime minister Julia Timoshenko, which is seen by the European Union as politically motivated, is considered as a major element that could stop the Ukraine-EU association agreement being signed.

Poland's former President, Aleksander Kwasniewski and European Parliament ex-President Pat Cox – who have acted as special envoys of a European Parliament monitoring mission to Ukraine – are to present in Brussels today their assessment of whether Ukraine has fulfilled the EU's criteria for the association and free trade agreement. (mk/pg)

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