(France24) The European Union has suspended work on a landmark trade pact with Ukraine, an EU official said Sunday, after the country’s President Viktor Yanukovich failed to make a clear commitment to signing the deal.
EU enlargement chief Stefan Fuele said on Twitter that the words and deeds of President Yanukovich and his government on the proposed trade pact with the EU were "further and further apart. Their arguments have no grounds in reality".
Fuele said he had told Ukraine's first deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov in Brussels last Thursday that further discussion on the trade agreement was conditional on a clear commitment by Kiev to sign it, but he had received no response.
As a result, work on the agreement was "on hold", he said.
Kiev had been expected to sign the agreement at a summit on November 21, but Yanukovich turned his back on the accord at the last minute in favour of closer ties with Moscow.
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