Ukraine and the European Union have signed a bilateral agreement on a new visa regime and readmission which Parliaments of both countries are to ratify in the coming days.
President Yushchenko’s comments came during a joint press conference of the Ukraine-EU Summit.
“We presently evidenced signing of a bilateral agreement on a new visa regime and readmission which the both Parliaments will soon ratify.”
“It was quite a laborious but successful job,” noted the Head of State.
He said that a joint agreement and report on negotiation progress in a new profound basic agreement between Ukraine and the EU were signed during the Summit.
The sides also made a joint report analyzing fulfillment of the Memorandum on Energy Collaboration between Ukraine and the EU.
According to the President, “during negotiations a special attention was focused on an intensified Ukraine-EU agreement”.
Mr. Yushchenko claimed that during the Summit the participants raised the collaboration issues formulated in the Ukraine-EU 2007-2008 action plan including nuclear safety, ecology, economic collaboration and some commercial and market problems.
At the press conference the President on behalf of the entire Ukraine thanked the EU for “its proper and responsive position at the height of the parliamentary crisis when all democratic forces were seeking a democratic solution to it,” he added.
The President re-assured that Ukraine will hold elections “exclusively on the basis of Ukrainian and international traditions and in full compliance with the law.”
He pointed out that elections will help streamline the parliamentary instability in which Ukraine had been living for months.
“It is a good foundation for overcoming constitutional instability originated from the ‘crippled’ 2004 Political Reform. We will likely withstand the test through political dialogue with our European partners,” Mr. Yushchenko concluded.
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda
