Brussels has called on Kyiv to stop speculating about a possible date for the initialing of the Association Agreement until the European Union draws the final line under the negotiation process.
"This is why we asked the Ukrainian side to refrain from announcing a possible date," a European diplomat said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine in Brussels on March 13, while commenting on recent reports that the Association Agreement may be initialed on March 30.
At the same time, he confirmed that Kyiv and Brussels have agreed on a specific date, but "the work is not over and a final line has not been drawn yet."
"With such statements the Ukrainian side causes damage to the negotiation process, which still continues inside the EU. In the process of coordination we asked the Ukrainian side to refrain from announcing the date – anything may happen. The situation is fragile. This does no good to the final decision making," the diplomat said.
Earlier, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said Kyiv expects that the Association Agreement with the EU would be initialled by the end of March.
The Regions Party MP and co-chairman of the Ukraine-EU parliamentary club, Volodymyr Vecherko, said that the document would be initialled on March 30.
Earlier, Kommersant-Ukraine, citing its sources in the Foreign Ministry, reported that the EU-Ukraine association agreement would be initialled in Brussels on March 30.
On February 27, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule said that the agreement would be initialled within a month and signed "in autumn, if the situation changes in Ukraine."
