For the past year, Ukraine insisted it was intent on signing an historic political and trade agreement with the European Union, but on Thursday, the government in Kiev made the surprising last-minute decision to suspend talks with the EU, drawing dismayed reaction from Europe and the United States.
Commenting on the news just minutes after it broke, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki that if reports were true “and if the decision is the Ukrainian government’s final decision,” the Obama administration was “disappointed.”
Psaki said the U.S. believes there was “ample time to resolve all remaining obstacles to signing the association agreement … with sufficient effort and commitment.”
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