09:53
21.3.2014
Video streaming: Roundtable + signing ceremony of the Association Agreement between the European Union and... http://t.co/ffqvt2tUBv
— EU Delegation UA (@EUDelegationUA) March 21, 2014
09:55
21.3.2014
Signing political part EU-Ukraine Association Agreement symbolises importance of relations & will to take it further pic.twitter.com/saT3c5itrw
— Herman Van Rompuy (@euHvR) March 21, 2014
10:00
21.3.2014
Russia ranks 3rd on UN's @refugees list of countries of origin for asylum-seekers, right after Syria, Afghanistan http://t.co/tD4nOACbJ1
— RPW (@RusPoliceWatch) March 21, 2014
10:05
21.3.2014
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has signed the political chapters of an Association Agreement with the European Union in Brussels, a highly symbolic move amid international tensions over Russia's annexation of Crimea.
10:10
21.3.2014
Russia's Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, has ratified a treaty to annex Ukraine's Crimea. The lower house, the State Duma, overwhelmingly approved the agreement on March 20.
10:21
21.3.2014
Important moment: Political provisions of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement now signed pic.twitter.com/QWIxLCX9us
— Herman Van Rompuy (@euHvR) March 21, 2014
10:29
21.3.2014
Via Reuters:
Interfax has quoted Foreign Minister Lavrov as saying Russia has "practically agreed" a deal to allow OSCE monitors into Ukraine.
10:31
21.3.2014
Reuters also has RIA-Novosti quoting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev saying Kyiv should be made to repay $11 billion on a gas deal that should be scrapped.
10:36
21.3.2014
Here's the text of Van Rompuy's statement:
"Today we are signing the Agreement's political provisions. It shows our steadfast support for the course the people of Ukraine have courageously pursued. Today is but the opening act: we expect to soon sign the Agreement's remaining parts, not east the economic provisions -- together with the political ones they form a single instrument."
EU is by the new Ukraine's side http://t.co/2MGbN6XGvi
— Herman Van Rompuy (@euHvR) March 21, 2014
10:38
21.3.2014
#Ukraine Association Agreement signed: firm #EU’s commitment to #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/BDmFTwu6hy
— Dalia Grybauskaitė (@Grybauskaite_LT) March 21, 2014