KIEV, March 20 - Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukraine's acting president and Parliament speaker, has authorized Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk to sign the political section of Ukraine's Association Agreement with the European Union on March 21.

Turchynov's instruction issued to Yatseniuk was published on the acting president's Web site on March 19.

According to the instruction, Yatseniuk, acting on behalf of Ukraine, will have to sign the final act of a special Ukraine-EU summit and the political section of the sides' Association Agreement accompanied by a statement saying: "The Obligations of Ukraine assumed under Article 8 of the Agreement concerning the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Code of 1998 will be fulfilled following the introduction of appropriate amendments into the Constitution of Ukraine."