{"id":250996,"date":"2014-03-21T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=250996"},"modified":"2014-03-21T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:29:46","slug":"ukraine-signs-eu-association-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/21\/ukraine-signs-eu-association-agreement.html","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Signs EU Association Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The political part of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine was signed in Brussels earlier today.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSigning on behalf of the EU was President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission Jos&eacute; Manuel Barroso, while signing on behalf of Ukraine was interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUkraine was set to sign the EU Association Agreement back in November 28&ndash;29, 2013, at the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius. However, one week before the summit, the government of Ukraine headed by Mykola Azarov declared it would be suspending the process, which &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/eu-russia-ukraine\/25304480.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>ignited<\/strong><\/span><\/a> months of pro-EU street protests in Ukraine and, eventually, unrest that sent [Viktor Yanukovych] fleeing into Russian exile in late February.&quot;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political part of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine was signed in Brussels earlier today.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20102,14816,54199,12920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}