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The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (the Czech Republic) has vetoed including the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Agreement in the agenda of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament on March 20.

This is according to a report issued by the Czech embassy in Kyiv.

According to the embassy, the next meeting of the Chamber of Deputies, which is the lower house of the Czech parliament, which will be able to change the agenda and consider the ratification of the agreement will take place in the second half of June.

The Czech Republic is one of eight EU countries that has not ratified the Association Agreements between Ukraine and the EU.

The Association Agreement with the EU has been ratified by Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Estonia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Germany, the Senate (upper house) of the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, and other EU states and parliaments.

On September 16, 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the European Parliament simultaneously ratified the document. On November 1, 2014 the provisional application of the Association Agreement began.