Lithuania’s parliament ratified the Moldova-European Union Association Agreement today, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

«We highly appreciate the openness and support of the European Union’s states, in order to achieve Moldova’s European path, and are further interested in a greater number of EU member states to ratify the agreement with Moldova,» Parliament Speaker Igor Corman said.

Romania was the first state to ratify the Association Agreement between Moldova and EU on 3 July. Estonia ratified the document on 4 July. The Latvian parliament will hold a meeting on 10 July, in order to ratify the above-mentioned accord, whereas the German Bundestag is to ratify it in autumn, when MPs return from recess.

Moldova was the first Eastern Partnership state to ratify the Association Agreement to EU, signed together with Ukraine and Georgia in Brussels, on 27 June. Under the European Union’s procedures, the treaty is to be ratified by those 28 member states and will enter into force on the first day of the second month after the date of submission of the last ratification instrument. Till then, the Association Agreement will be partially and preliminary implemented in a month after the EU and Moldova complete the procedures necessary to this end.

The Moldovan parliament ratified the Association Agreement by uninominal vote at the 2 July plenary meeting. Fifty nine MPs voted for, 4 lawmakers were against and 38 were absent.