Statement: Outcome of the Trilateral Talks on the Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement/Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement

On 18 May 2015, the EU Trade Commissioner Malmström, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Klimkin and Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Ulyukayev met in Brussels to continue talks on the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement/Free Trade Area (AA/DCFTA), which will be provisionally applied as of 1 January 2016. This was the third meeting at ministerial level, after the two previous meetings held on 11 July and 12 September 2014.

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ESO: Background information: EU and Ukraine suspend historic trade pact http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-and-ukraine-suspend-historic-trade-pact/

ESO: Background information: Joint conclusions of the EU-Russian Federation-Ukraine ministerial meeting on the effects of implementation of the EU-Ukraine AA/DCFTA http://www.europeansources.info/record/joint-conclusions-of-the-eu-russian-federation-ukraine-ministerial-meeting-on-the-effects-of-implementation-of-the-eu-ukraine-aa-dcfta/

Blog: EurActiv Guest Blog, 27.05.15: EU-Russia Relations and the crisis in Ukraine: how to proceed? http://guests.blogactiv.eu/2015/05/27/eu-russia-relations-and-the-crisis-in-ukraine-how-to-proceed/

EUObserver, 28.07.15: Dutch citizens' group wants to vote on EU-Ukraine treaty https://euobserver.com/beyond-brussels/129787

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