RSS News headlinesKyiv, July 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Germany hopes it will be possible to regard the new, enhanced agreement between Ukraine and the European Union as an agreement on associated membership, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a joint press conference with President Viktor Yuschenko in Kyiv on Monday.
"A EU-Ukraine meeting will take place in France this fall under the chairmanship of France. And we, the Federative Republic of Germany, may imagine that [a new agreement with Ukraine] means not only an agreement about enhanced cooperation, but also as an agreement on associated membership," she said.
"This is not a status, but a qualification of the new agreement… One should not take this as terms for joining the EU," she said.
