A foot in each door: Ukraine says EU trade deal certain, Russia–led union also an option — RT Business

A foot in each door: Ukraine says EU trade deal certain, Russia–led union also an option — RT Business:

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Reuters / Francois Lenoir

Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych said his country will sign a free-trade pact with the EU, adding he wants to keep open an option of joining Russia in the Customs Union. Russia insists Ukraine cannot have both.

Speaking at Tuesday’s UN General Assembly in New York, Yanukovych stressed his country’s plan to broaden cooperation with the European Union, a snub to President’s Putin movement to bring all the former-Soviet union nations under a Eurasian customs union.

"Ukraine's European aspirations are the main pillar of the country's development,” Yanukovych said.

The Ukrainian government has already approved the draft resolution agreement with the EU which will be presented, and likely signed, at the EU summit in Lithuania on November 29."

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