RIA Novosti: European Union Says Not Ready to Embrace Ukraine

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BRUSSELS, March 27 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union is not ready to offer its membership to Ukraine, although such a posibility may arise in the future, President of the European Commission Jose Barroso said Thursday.

Barroso said the membership had not been offered because the EU member-states were not ready “to integrate at this stage a country like Ukraine.”

He emphasized that Ukraine was not ready to join the EU either.

“But we have always said the door is not closed to accession…so the possibility exist s in the future,” Barroso said.

New authorities in Kiev signed last week political chapters of an association agreement with the European Union, committing both sides to closer ties.

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