EU aid offer for Ukraine to sign pact was humiliating: Yanukovich


  • World
  • Wednesday, 27 Nov 2013

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said on Tuesday that the terms of a financial aid offer from the EU had been humiliating and he would consider signing a landmark free trade pact with the bloc only when it suited Ukraine's interests.

He said the EU had offered aid worth 610 million euros and had linked this to Ukraine agreeing on a new programme with the International Monetary Fund which itself had laid down unacceptable conditions.

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