Agro Perspectiva

Yatseniuk: Ukraine is ready to sign the Agreement with EU asap

07.03.2014 13:29 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) — The Ukrainian Government has set a goal to sign the Association Agreeemnt with the EU. We are ready to ink this Agreement as fast as possible. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk tiold that duirng a press conference in Brussels on the outcomes of participation in the extraordinary summit of the EU Heads of State and Governmens, Government Portal reports. The Prime Minister expressed gratitude to the European partners for the economic package suggested to Ukraine. We must stabilize the situation immediately, he underlined. The economic situation is a sensitive question, he noted: «However, the Government is trying to preserve the stability, fulfill liabilities, cover all budgetary expenditures and ensure the Ukrainians with all social payments». Moreover, Arsenii Yatseniuk emphasized the Cabinet of Ministers had resumed the negotiations with the IMF: «It is an essential condition for stabilizing the economy of Ukraine. We are ready to engage the negotiations and adherence to the agreement which is to be signed between Ukraine and the IMF». Apart from that, the Prime Minister stressed the military crisis in Ukraine is «the crisis for the whole Europe». He informed that during the Summit of the EU Heads of State and Governmens there had been held a clear and open discussion about how to find the way to solve this conflict exceptinally with the help of the polictical and diplomatic instruments: «We are striving to overcome in a peaceful way. We are devoted to the values of our independence and integrtity and convinced we will find the ways out that afford everyone to understand that Ukraine is an independent country and none has a right to interfere in out internal policy and everyone is interested in peace and stability in Ukraine and in the region». Arsenii Yatseniuk emphasized that further escalation and aggravation of the situation in Crimea would have extremely negative consequences for the Ukrainian economy in whole. «It is extremely difficult to persuade the foreign investors to put into the country with the Russian tanks moving and Russian soldiers waking along the territory. I don’t exclude it to be a part of the plan,» the Head of the Government noted. «We appeal the Russian authorities with a demand to withdraw their troops to barracks, not to support illegal so-called government of Crimea and start real negotiations to solve the crisis peacefully… To fulfill the international agreements, not to undermine the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine and not to support those who desire to split Ukraine,» the Premier stressed. «The time has come to stop. Building of new Berlin walls is not the architecture of global safety acknowledged in the world nowadays,» he emphasized. Arsenii Yatseniuk addressed the President of Russia: «Mr. Putin, tear down this wall».