KIEV, June 19 - President Petro Poroshenko said he intends to personally sign the economic part of the association agreement with the European Union in Brussels on June 27.

"Pavlo Anatoliyovych [Klimkin] is now foreign minister. I will sign the economic part of the agreement on June 27 and the procedure for signing the association agreement will be completed," Poroshenko said while introducing Ukraine's new Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kiev on Thursday.