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Ukraine and Russia plan to approve a road map to improved trade relations on Tuesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Sunday in a late-night interview on Ukraine's national broadcaster, Inter TV.

The announcement comes
just hours after a European Union officer said the EU had halted work on
a trade agreement with Ukraine, after Kiev failed to show “clear
commitment” to signing the deal.

Stefan Fule, European commissioner for enlargement and European neighborhood policy, said earlier Sunday on
Twitter that the words and deeds of Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych and his government on the proposed pact were “further &
further apart. Their arguments have no grounds in reality.”

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