Ukraine in Arabic | The European Parliament completed the ratification of the European Union - Ukraine
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law on the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) on Tuesday.
According to preliminary information, immediately after the ratification of the agreement by the Ukrainian parliament and its signature by Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov, the document was sent to the president, who immediately signed it.
Deputies of the European Parliament in Strasbourg watched a live broadcast of voting in the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv. European Parliament President Martin Schulz gave the floor to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, whose speech was broadcast in Strasbourg.
Shortly after the vote Schulz signed a letter to the Council of the European Union saying that the ratification procedure had been completed and the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement simultaneously took effect.In the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on ratification of the Association Agreement was backed by 355 MPs.
Following ratification by the legislative bodies of Ukraine and the EU, the provisional application of certain provisions of the political, institutional and sectoral parts of the document will begin from November 1, 2014.
The agreement will come into force in full after its ratification by all 28 member states of the EU.
The tentative deadline for the implementation of the Association Agreement is ten years.
Ukraine and the EU signed the Association Agreement in two stages: the political part on March 21, 2014 and the economic chapter on June 27, 2014.