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Justice minister says government not to postpone implementation of Association Agreement

Published Sept. 17, 2014 at 9:23 pm

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shows a newly voted Ukrainian law about the ratification of the Ukraine-EU association agreement on Sept. 16, 2014 at the Ukrainian Parliament in Kyiv.

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The Ukrainian government will not postpone the implementation of the Association Agreement with the EU, which was ratified on Sept. 16, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko has said.

“The government has not taken any decision regarding the postponement of the Association Agreement,” he said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Sept. 17.

He said that the position of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and the entire government was that there should be no delay in the implementation of this document.