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"en.20111201.35.4-435-750"2
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"It would be unthinkable, including in terms of the developments under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), not to support the association agreement with Ukraine, which, moreover, has a fundamental strategic role in such an essential sector as energy resources. However, the well-known political and judicial issues cannot be considered of secondary import. Hence, as Ms Tymoshenko herself said recently, we need to strengthen the political significance, which must go hand in hand with the economic and commercial aspects of the agreement. As the document under scrutiny suggests, this must become the mechanism for incentivising development and the onward march of reform. This is by no means an easy path, as the rejection of the amendment decriminalising the abuse of power and the continued imprisonment of Ms Tymoshenko and other opposition figures show. This is not a matter of meddling in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state, but of shrewd and active supervision of the personal and political freedoms that are basic conditions for rapprochement with the EU. Support for the agreement must therefore be understood in this light, without losing any respect for the rights of minorities and democratic principles, which are, in any case, well expressed in the document itself."@en1
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