Estonia supports the introduction of a simplified visa regime between the European Union and Ukraine, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet has said.
He said this at a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Kostiantyn Hryschenko in Sopot, Poland, the Estonian Foreign Ministry’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
Paet said that the "the simplification of travel to the EU countries will favour the rapprochement between Ukrainian society and the European Union."
He also noted that his country supported Ukraine’s associate membership of the EU and the signing of an EU-Ukraine free trade agreement.
Paet said that the EU’s Eastern Partnership program provided a good chance for Ukraine to get closer to the EU.
"The Eastern Partnership program is an opportunity, under which the EU-Ukraine cooperation can be further strengthened," he said.
He also said that "Ukraine is one of the priority states for Estonian foreign policies."
Paet expressed hope that an inter-governmental commission would begin to work and that a social insurance agreement would be signed with Ukraine.
