Kiev has called unacceptable the delay in the decision on visa-free regime with the EU
The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine told the EU Ambassador that further delay in the decision on granting visa-free regime for Ukrainians is unacceptable and cannot depend on the development of a mechanism for the suspension, said Wednesday the press service of the Ukrainian foreign Ministry. the Ukrainian authorities reported that about It the speech went at the meeting, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Elena zerkal with the head of the EU delegation to Ukraine Hugh Mingarelli. The mirror told the Ambassador that any further delay with the adoption of " the EU decision on visa-free regime for citizens of Ukraine is unacceptable." She said that Ukraine has fulfilled all the criteria of the action plan on liberalization of EU visa regime for Ukraine. Why Kiev hopes that the member States of the EU will make further efforts for the approval of the legislative proposal to grant Ukrainian citizens the right to short-term visa-free travel to the EU in the near future, " without regard to the harmonization process within the EU mechanism for the temporary suspension of visa-free regime ", - stated in the message. On 8 November the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that a positive decision from the European Union on the liberalization of the visa regime for Kiev would be taken in the near future, prohibitions for this left. October 23, Poroshenko said that until 24 November, the European Parliament ratified the documents on granting Ukraine a visa-free regime with the EU. In October in Brussels at the conference of the European Union decided that in the coming weeks the EU must reach agreement about the mechanism of freezing of a visa-free regime. It's part of the debate on the abolition of visas with Turkey, but the decision applies to other countries-candidates for "bezviz" - Ukraine, Georgia and Kosovo. If EU countries adopt " the mechanism of freezing ", It means the following: even If a visa-free regime with the Ukraine will be introduced, It has the ability to be canceled at any time in a simplified administrative procedure ? If a country "abusing the terms" visa-free regime. Remember, in early autumn, the Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko has asked the EU to speed up ratification of visa-free regime. He has also made a promise that before the abolition of visas with the EU remained a few weeks. However, at the end of September, the European diplomatic source in Brussels close to the European Parliament, said that the conclusion about the transition of the European Union on visa-free regime for short trips of citizens of Georgia and Ukraine is unlikely to be accepted by the EU until the end of 2016. Note that the expected abolition of visas for citizens of Ukraine for entry into the European Union will not affect traveling for work.