Brussels – Ukraine's representative to the EU, Kostiantyn Yeliseyev, has said that the European Parliament is an example to the Verkhovna Rada in the completion of procedures on the entry into force of the enhanced agreement on visa liberalization.
While commenting on the results of the vote at the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, which proposed bringing this agreement into force, he said: “I sincerely hope that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and all political forces in the Ukrainian parliament will soon also unanimously support the ratification of the agreement, which will open up the opportunity for a whole number of categories of Ukrainian citizens to obtain short-term visas to the Schengen area under a simplified procedure.”
An Interfax-Ukraine reporter in Brussels learned this from Ukraine’s Mission to the European Union.
The diplomat described the vote at the Committee on Foreign Affairs on Tuesday as “the first positive news this year in relations between Ukraine and the EU.”
“This opens the way for the ratification by the European Parliament of this document in the near future,” he said.
