New agreement between Ukraine and EU might be viewed as agreement on Ukraine’s associated membership, Merkel says

24/07/2008, 17:24

Germany hopes it will be possible to regard the new, enhanced agreement between Ukraine and the European Union as an agreement on associated membership, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a joint press conference with President Viktor Yuschenko in Kyiv on Monday. 

"A EU-Ukraine meeting will take place in France this fall under the chairmanship of France. And we, the Federative Republic of Germany, may imagine that [a new agreement with Ukraine] means not only an agreement about enhanced cooperation, but also as an agreement on associated membership," she said.

"This is not a status, but a qualification of the new agreement… One should not take this as terms for joining the EU," she said.

Interfax-Ukraine
http://www.interfax.com.ua/en/news/main-news/152964/


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