EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski has said that Ukraine could switch to a visa-free regime with the EU by the end of this year.
“A final decision [on the transition to the second phase of the action plan] has not yet been made, but I think it will be made in the near future. And if that happens, it will mean that we have very good prospects to switch to the visa-free regime by the end of this year,” he said at an international conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
He noted that the European Commission had made a positive assessment of the implementation by Ukraine of the first phase of the action plan on visa liberalization with the EU, and proposed proceeding to the second phase of the implementation of this document.
Tombinski also noted that EU members had recently started discussing this issue and there had already been positive estimates regarding Ukraine’s transition to the second phase of the action plan on visa liberalization.
As reported, Ukraine has completed the first phase of the action plan, which envisaged the adoption of all laws necessary for the visa-free regime with the EU. Kyiv expects the European side soon to make the decision to move to the second (implementation) phase.
