Sikorski: Ukraine - EU agreement '50 - 50'
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
28.10.2013 13:20
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NFP 28 10 2013 SIKORSKI INTERVIEW.mp3
“There’s a fifty-fifty chance” of Ukraine signing an associate agreement with the EU at the Vilnius summit in November, Poland’s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski says in an exclusive interview with Polish Radio’s English Section.
Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski at the Dialogue for Democracy conference in Warsaw, Friday: photo - PAP/Paweł Supernak
The continued imprisonment of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is seen as a major obstacle to signing the agreement, however, Minister Sikorski tells reporter Michal Kubicki.
Last weekend Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski again called on the Ukrainian authorities to allow Tymoshenko to go abroad for treatment for acute back pain, stressing that human rights have always been at the foundation of the European Union.