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The European Union can help resolve some of the financial concerns that have prevented Ukraine from signing a landmark trade deal, its top diplomat said on Dec. 16, as tens of thousands of protesters kept up demonstrations over fears that Kyiv would be moving closer to neighbor Russia.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told reporters in Brussels,
Belgium, that she believed the bloc could work with Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovych on Kyiv’s concerns after the Eastern European country
backpedaled on signing the Association Agreement. 

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