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Ukraine has made a temporary pause on the road to European integration
25.11.2013 12:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
It was said by Mykola Azarov on the TV program «Shuster live» on November 22, Mykola Azarov Official Website reports.
«We have explained and continue to assert that we are focused on integration with the European Union, we are focused on the signing of this agreement, but now we’ve taken a pause,» said the Prime Minister.
According to the Head of the Government, nothing has changed strategically, only the tactics has changed. It is connected with the need to normalize the economic situation that has arisen due to the reduction in trade with the countries of the Customs Union, i.e., Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. «The three countries have decided and committed their decision to a document that the regime of a free trade zone will be infringed,» said Mykola Azarov. He proposed to the Russian partners to discuss possible consequences of the EU Association Agreement with the representatives of Ukraine and the EU in the trilateral talks.
The Prime Minister also drew the attention of the audience to the fact that the negotiations on the FTA with the European Union may be resumed at any time, but only after the elimination of the important disputable issues that Ukraine has to date.
«The situation is now fraught with the loss of thousands of jobs. So the question arises, why we haven’t got the right to make the decision which meets our national interests at the present moment?» summed up Mykola Azarov.
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