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About a thousand people took part in a rally in support of European integration near the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the center of Lviv on Nov. 17. The demonstrators held posters reading "Run away from Moscow!" "We Chose United Europe!"

They sang the national anthem and unfurled a 22 by 16 meters national flag and held it until the end of the event.

Professor Ivan Vakarchuk of the Ivan Franko University read out a
draft appeal to the Ukrainian people, saying: “We are alarmed by the
slow-moving approval of the European integration bills, and by the
president and government’s erratic position on the most pressing issues,
all of which puts the signing of the association accord in jeopardy.”

The national-patriotic forces of the Lviv region are calling on all
Ukrainians to rally around the European integration idea and “gather for
a powerful action in order to compel the authorities to sign the
association accord,” the appeal says.

The authors urged Ukrainian citizens to join a rally in Kyiv on
Nov. 24, and another rally in front of the parliament building on
Nov. 19 and 21. A national protest action will be organized if the
agreement is not signed, the appeal says.