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The EU parliament’s envoy for Ukraine yesterday warned Kyiv risked losing the chance of signing a key deal with the bloc indefinitely if it fails to ink the accord at a summit later this month.

The warning by Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former president of Poland,
came after Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday failed to agree legislation
that would have allowed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to go
free and remove a key obstacle to signing the Association Agreement.

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