Ambassadors of EU countries approved SA with Ukraine

Permanent representatives of 28 EU countries approved the Association Agreement with Ukraine, RFE / RL reported..

EU foreign ministers should approve July 11 document. The agreement will enter into force on September 1.

For a long time, the only country that did not approve the entry into force of the agreement with Ukraine was the Netherlands. The future of the document remained unclear after 61 percent of the referendum participants in April 2016 opposed the agreement with Ukraine. At the same time, the referendum was. After that, Brussels promised that the agreement would not become the basis for Ukraine's admission to the EU or for military assistance to Kiev. Then the Dutch parliament ratified the agreement.

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