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Ukraine insisted Tuesday that a formal agreement covering energy, trade, judicial and human rights norms tying the ex-Communist country to the EU will be signed by November "at the latest."

Six days from a summit of leaders from Kyiv and the European Union, Ukraine ambassador to the EU Kostiantyn Yelisieiev insisted that Kyiv only wants to “go West.” 

His government does not want to sign up to a putative ‘customs union’ trading bloc with Russia and one-time Soviet allies, Yelisieiev insisted.

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