BRUSSELS – Foreign Affairs Council of EU, in a course of the discussion of the situation in Ukraine, for the first time brought on top the reform process inside Ukraine rather than Minsk Agreements' implementation, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said.
“Last but not at all least, we had a discussion on Ukraine, restating our full and united support to the full implementation of the Minsk Agreements but focusing this time, maybe for the first time in this clear and focused way, not only and not so much on the Minsk implementation but on the reform process inside Ukraine,” she said at a press conference following the meeting of EU foreign chiefs.
Mogherini named such reforms as the reform of the judiciary, the reform of the public administration sector, the decentralization reforms.
“We’re recognizing the incredible, outstanding work that the Ukrainian authorities have done over the past months to move forward the reform agenda with very concrete steps,” she stressed.
The EU foreign affairs chief also has said Ukraine needs to continue the reform process in the country.
“The need for us to support the Ukrainian authorities in a better coordinated way between the European Union and Member States to make sure that the reform agenda continues, especially that it is implemented, and that the benefits of the reform agenda manage to reach the Ukrainian people, who just two years ago, exactly two years ago, were in Maidan asking for reforms and changes in their society,” she added.
