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Poroshenko: For the first time questions on visa-free regime obligations fullfilment are addressed not to Ukraine, but to EU
24.11.2016 18:03 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of today, within the framework of his working visit to the EU institutions, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has taken part within the 18th Ukraine-EU Summit in Brussels, President Petro Poroshenko Press Office reports.
While speaking within the joint media statement with President of the European Council Donald Tusk, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker following the Ukraine-EU Summit, Poroshenko has emphasized that within the discussion of the visa liberalization issue at the Summit, the European partners underscored full implementation by Ukraine of all commitments for the abolition of visas.
«It was clearly emphasized that Ukraine had firmly fulfilled its part of obligations. The last confirmation of that was the decision of Nov 17, when the EU Council unanimously adopted the decision to declare the political will of the EU and all its members to provide the visa-free regime for Ukraine and finally turned on the „green light» on that path," Poroshenko said.
«Abolition of the visa regime with the EU will become the fall of another barrier to our single civilization space. The introduction of the visa-free regime marks further rapprochement between Ukraine and the European Union,» the President noted.
«Ukraine has fulfilled all the requirements set by us. So now the EU, in its turn, should do its part,» Poroshenko stressed.
As to the report, Jean-Claude Juncker noted: «I remain confident that despite difficulties that may exist between certain states-members of the EU and the European Parliament, we will manage to provide the visa-free regime for Ukraine by the end of the year».
He also added that the EU Council and the European Parliament must agree on the exact mechanism of suspension of the visa-free regime and that did not apply to Ukraine, but to the member states of the EU.
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