An advisory referendum on Ukraine’s association agreement with the European Union took place in the Netherlands earlier in the day. The Netherlands is the only member state that has not yet ratified the deal.
"This [treaty] will not help the ordinary citizens in Ukraine. It will help the oligarchs, it will help Poroshenko and it will help the others. I am willing and the Dutch are willing to help Ukrainians, but we can do that through neighborhood policy and all sorts of funds that are available already," Harry van Bommel told RT.
The lawmaker added that he was against the association deal as Ukraine remained unstable due to the conflict in the country's east that claimed the lives of almost 10,000 people.
The result of the advisory vote will be published on April 12. Even if the majority of voters say no to the EU-Ukraine association agreement, the free trade zone, part of the association agreement, will still be implemented.
