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BRUSSELS, Feb. 28-- Chief Brexit negotiator of the European Union (EU) Michel Barnier on Wednesday unveiled the union's draft Withdrawal Agreement on Brexit, calling on the two sides to accelerate "if we want to succeed in this negotiation". It is an "important moment for negotiation", and "I would almost say a key or pivotal moment in this long complex process of this extraordinary negotiation that we want to succeed," Barnier told reporters at a press conference for the release. The 119-page document, which sets out the arrangements for the withdrawal of Britain from the Union and from the European Atomic Energy Community, will be discussed over the coming weeks with the Council (Article 50) and the Brexit Steering Group of the European Parliament before transmission to the British authorities for negotiation. Including 168 articles, the agreement "translates into legal terms the Joint Report from the negotiators of the European Union and the United Kingdom Government on the progress achieved during phase 1 of the negotiations, published on 8 December 2017, and proposes text for those outstanding withdrawal issues which are mentioned in, but not set out in detail, in the Joint Report", said EU in a statement after Barnier's conference. Consisting of six parts, the document identified EU's redlines on such key issues as citizens' rights, financial settlement, transitional arrangements and the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland, among others. | 
