KIEV // Ukrainian president Petro Porosheko said that a “No” vote in a Dutch referendum on a key EU pact with Kiev was no obstacle to the ex-Soviet country’s integration with the bloc.Voters in the Netherlands on Wednesday rejected the cooperation deal in a people’s referendum seen as a barometer of anti-EU feeling, although it is non-binding.”I would like to emphasise that this referendum has an exclusively consultative nature under the constitution and legislation of the Netherlands,” the Ukraine president said in a statement on Thursday.
“I am confident that this event is not a strategic obstacle for Ukraine on the …read more
Source: The National
