Centre UA NGO Chairman Oleh Rybachuk has said that Ukraine-European Union summit, which is to be held in Kyiv on Dec. 19, will merely be a formality.
"If the summit takes place, as the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry believes, then it will just be a formality. The representatives at this summit won’t have influence on the prospects for the agreement being initialed," Rybachuk said at the press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
He said that technically the agreement might be initialed outside the summit’s format.
"Our diplomatists realize that there will be no show. And there will be no propaganda scenario, which will allow Ukrainian government to say: Look! We’re signing a document at the highest level," he said.
Rybachuk said that if the situation with democracy and the supremacy of law does not change in Ukraine, the document would not be initialed for some time.
Rybachuk was Ukrainian Deputy Premier for European Integration from February to September 2005.
