The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that together with the President of the country Petro Poroshenko will visit a few days later the Netherlands, the topic of discussion will be, among them, a referendum on the issue of Ukraine's Association agreement with the European Union.

As said before the portal, the Advisory referendum on the issue of Ukraine's Association agreement with the European Union will be held in the Netherlands on 6 April next year. In the voting can participate only citizens of the Netherlands. The government of this state has voted for Association of Ukraine with the EU.

on Thursday in interview to television channel Ukraine Today Klimkin said that the future of the free trade agreement is in the overall competence of the EU, and not the competence of individual EU countries, for this reason, the result of the referendum will have no impact on the implementation of the Treaty." We will start its implementation from January 1, period. We will not make any changes to How the future contract would act, " he said.

Answering the question whether this question Poroshenko's visit to the Netherlands, on the preparation of which is reported by the media, the Minister said that " the idea of the visit had been agreed Some time ago ".

"we have a special relationship with the Netherlands at the present time. The story is mostly about the support of the Netherlands on the European agenda. Maybe it's a special sympathy because of the tragedy with MH17 (the collapse of the Malaysian airliner with Dutch travelers in the Donbas in July 2014 - ed.). Presidential visits are important in this sense ", - said Klimkin.

"I'm also in a few days will go to the Hague, will hold dialogues with counterpart Bert Koenders on shared us, I will not speak of common strategy for the referendum. Because the story is not about Ukraine, not even on the contract about unification, but about people that traditionally are seen As eurosceptics, they are behind this referendum, they are against the European policy of the Netherlands ", - said the Head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

in the past year, Ukraine and the European Parliament ratified the Association agreement with the EU, part of which is the provision on free trade area (FTA). Russia is concerned with the introduction from 1 January 2016 in the provisions of the FTA and fears of an influx of duty free items from the EU through Ukraine.

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