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The Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union will be sent to the Verkhovna Rada in the middle of September for ratification, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at the tenth extraordinary congress of the Solidarity Party in Kyiv on Aug. 27. 

“There cannot be any delay in the ratification of the Association Agreement. And this is then until September 12, which was agreed with European Union leaders as the deadline for the end of consultations on the deep and comprehensive free trade area,” he said.

Such consultations will be “dramatically sped up” to safeguard the interests of Ukraine.

At its congress on Aug. 27, the Solidarity Party decided to change its name to the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko.