Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Economic section of the Association Agreement with the EU should be signed as soon as possible

“Our advancement towards our European future is invariable, resolute and decisive. I believe we deserve to be a European Union’s member country,” Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk declared at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Friday, June 6.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk emphasized the Government of Ukraine had inked a political section of the Association Agreement with the European Union: “Regarding the economic section, the EU has opened on a unilateral basis their sales markets for over 120 commodity positions of Ukraine’s origin, in particular for agro-industrial and industrial commodities”.

“Such one-way opening of markets by the European Union provides additional incomes for Ukrainian business worth EUR 500 million by November 1 of the current year,” he explained.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that the economic section of the AA should be inked as soon as possible: “Our course towards Europe is unchangeable. It is a political, economic, judicial, democratic perspective. As taking into account our values Ukraine is a European state. Hence, signing the Agreement is the first step capable to ensure Ukraine’s EU membership in the future”.