The new government in Ukraine says Kiev could sign parts of a European Union association pact later this month.
On Sunday, acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya said that Kiev plans to sign the political association deal with the EU on March 17 or 21, AFP reported.
The dates given correspond to a meeting of European Union foreign ministers on March 17 and EU leaders summit on March 20/21.
Political crisis erupted in Ukraine in November 2013, after the country’s ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych, refrained from signing the Association Agreement with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.
The Ukrainian parliament ousted Yanukovych in February and named Oleksandr Turchynov, the legislature’s newly-elected speaker, as interim president. The ouster followed months of anti-government protests in the former Soviet Republic.
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