Ukraine and the European Union (EU) will sign the final agreement on granting Ukraine macro-financial assistance in the amount of 1, 8 billion euros on Thursday, may 21, said the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
yesterday a source close to the leadership of the European Union, said that the EU and Ukraine at the conference "Eastern partnership" in Riga, which will be held 21-22 may, will sign a Memorandum of understanding for the allocation of EU approved before the 3rd aid package for the country in the amount of 1, 8 billion euros.
"Tomorrow at the conference" Eastern partnership "will be signed the final agreement on granting Ukraine macro-financial assistance in the amount of 1 billion 800 million euros," - said Poroshenko on Wednesday with the President of Slovakia press conference.
Poroshenko also confirmed that on Thursday will be at the conference in Riga.
The program "Eastern partnership" includes political Association and economic integration of the EU with Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The last 3 countries last year signed the Association agreement with the EU partnership, which has already ratified the overwhelming number of member States of the European Union.
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