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EU and Ukraine parliaments to ratify trade treaty 16 September
By EUobserver
Ukraine leader Petro Porosenko has said the European Parliament and the Ukrainian assembly, the Vekrhovna Rada, will on 16 September jointly ratify the EU-Ukraine free trade pact. Ukraine's foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin will also meet with EU and Russian delegates in Brussels on Friday to discuss implementation of the treaty.