LONDON // Britain's government says it will trigger Article 50, signalling Britain's departure from the European Union, on March 29.
The Department for Exiting the European Union said in a statement that Britain's permanent representative to the EU, Tim Barrow, informed the European Council president Donald Tusk of the timing on Monday morning. The notification of triggering Article 50 will come in the form of a letter.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said in a statement that the country is "on the threshold of the most important negotiation" for a generation.
The European Union, meanwhile, is fully prepared for Brexit negotiations after Britain announced that it would trigger its divorce on March 29, the European Commission said on Monday.
"Everything is ready on this side," Margaritis Schinas, the spokesman for European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, told a briefing. "We are ready to begin negotiations."
Britain voted by a 52 per cent majority to leave the European Union - the first member state ever to do so.
The divorce process under Article 50 gives a two-year framework for negotiations.
Prime minister Theresa May has said she wants to leave the European single market in order to be able to control immigration.
* Associated Press and Agence France-Presse
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