Barroso Says EU To Sign 'Immediately' Political Agreement With Ukraine
http://www.rferl.org/content/eu-association-ukraine-agreement-barroso-crimea/25290180.html
March 08, 2014
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says the European Union has decided to sign "immediately" the political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine.
Barroso, speaking at a summit of European regions and cities in Athens with Western leaders furious over a Russian occupation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, said the EU has a "debt, a duty of solidarity" with Ukraine.
But the head of the EU executive body added that Ukraine's association with the 28-nation bloc must be done "in a way that is peaceful."
The decision in November by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to suspend signing the agreement sparked the massive protests that led to the Yanukovych regime's departure from power and the takeover of Ukraine's Crimea by pro-Russian forces.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya said on March 8 that Ukraine will never give up Crimea and that Kyiv is doing everything it can to resolve the crisis there peacefully.
Based on reporting by Reuters and AP
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