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"Mr President, I start by saying to the Commissioner that in diplomacy sometimes one has to take quick decisions. However, when there are those who seek to divide us, to come to that decision on Friday without consultation was one that clearly has caused consternation in this House. I am sure you will have heard that. Like several of my colleagues, I express the wish in this debate for the peace talks to continue; for Russian troops to be withdrawn, and for the decisions that have been taken in the Council about the sanctions to be supported.
But I do not apologise for using my speech as a Member of the European Parliament to say how proud I and we were to vote simultaneously with the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament, to ratify the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. It is an act of huge symbolism which holds out the hand of friendship to the people of Ukraine when there are attempts to divide us. It is a sign of our absolute unity. It is the democratic mark of the right of sovereign countries and of their peoples to decide their own futures. To those on the fringes of this House who say they admire Putin and who in this debate seek to oppose the agreement, it shows our Ukrainian friends that we have extremists in the European Union too. Perhaps they and all of us when we come to vote will remember the thousand people who gave their lives in the Euromaidan so that this Association Agreement could come forward."@en1
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