The House of Commons of Canada has backed the ratification of a free trade area (FTA) agreement with Ukraine, according to the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine's Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska.
The Netherlands has threatened to scupper a trade and security deal between the EU and Ukraine unless it receives legally binding guarantees at a summit of European leaders next week, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte said in an interview with the Financial Times.
The Federal Parliament of Canada will hold hearings on the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement next week, Canadian government’s representative in parliament Bardish Chagger said.
A mutually acceptable compromise between Kyiv, Brussels and Amsterdam will be found on the issue of the association agreement at the Ukraine-EU summit in Brussels on November 24, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Israel have discussed the ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko has announced that the government of Canada has submitted an agreement on free trade with Ukraine to its parliament for ratification.
The Government of the Netherlands will come up with its position on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement not earlier than late June, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in the Parliament in The Hague.