Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov claims Ukrainian Parliament will soon ratify the Association Agreement with the European Union.
"Ukrainians have made their choice of European and Euro-Atlantic integration; Russian aggression can not stop us", Oleksandr Turchynov claimed this in an interview to the Baltic news service NBS on Monday.
As it was informed earlier, Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov will participate in the Conference of Parliamentary Speakers of the Nordic and Baltic Countries on August 17-19 (Palanga, the Republic of Lithuania).
The Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada will make a speech within the framework of discussion "Eastern Partnership of the European Union after Vilnius, before Riga".
The Leader of Ukrainian Parliament will meet with President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Loreta Grauziniene, Speaker of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia Solvita Aboltina, and with the Chairperson of the Riksdag of the Kingdom of Sweden Per Westerberg.
Oleksandr Turchynov will participate in a joint press conference of Speakers of NB-8 member-states for Lithuanian mass media, and will lay flowers to Taras Shevchenko monument in Vilnius.