Kiev (AFP) – President Petro Poroshenko said on Friday that the Ukrainian and European parliaments would meet on September 16 to jointly ratify an historic agreement pulling his country further out of Russia’s reach.Poroshenko also told an international conference in Kiev he hoped to secure a “special status” for Ukraine with NATO during his visit to Washington next week when he will meet US President Barack Obama and deliver a keynote address in Congress.His announcements came on the same day that the European Union applied its most punishing economic sanctions to date against Russia for its alleged support for pro-Kremlin …read more
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