BRUSSELS, Oct. 22 – The European Parliament may recommend the EU Council should sign the Association Agreement with Ukraine if Kiev meets all the necessary conditions.

This is stated in the draft resolution entitled "The European Neighborhood Policy: towards a strengthening of the partnership. Position of the European Parliament on the 2012 reports," which will be put on vote at a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski will present the document.

"[The European Parliament] recommends that the Council sign the Association Agreement between the EU and its Member States, on the one part, and Ukraine on the other part, if the required conditions, as formally defined by the Foreign Affairs Council of December 10, 2012 and supported by Parliament's resolution of December 13, 2012, are met; expresses its approval, conditional upon the above-mentioned requirements, of the Council decision on the provisional application of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement immediately upon signature; states its intention, in the event of meeting all requirements and subsequent signing, to proceed with the full ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement within the present legislative term," the draft resolution reads.