KIEV, Aug. 28 - The European Union is ready to sign an association agreement with Ukraine, and the ball is in President Viktor Yanukovych's court, a statement from the Batkivschyna opposition party leader Arseniy Yatseniuk told reporters in Brussels after a meeting of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.

He said Batkivschyna had begun a series of roundtables on Ukraine's proposed integration with the EU, but that no one from the government, president's office or ruling Party of Regions had attended any of them.