Ukraine has chances to get visa-free regime with the EU at the Eastern partnership conference in Riga in may 2015, subject to fulfillment of all the preparatory procedures, said the Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Lana serkal.
the head of the European Council Herman van Rompuy at the end of June promised Ukraine and Georgia is visa-free regime and the full integration of Georgian, Moldovan and Ukrainian economies in the EU market. At the same time, the Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko said that Ukraine hopes from the first of January 2015 to connect to a visa-free regime with the European Union.
" currently, all of our plans on January 1, scheduled to start the procedure of issuing biometric passports. But the abolition of the visa regime is impossible, as long as the EU does not appreciate, how exactly is the issue, how is working the system, how secure passport serial production. This assessment takes time. For this reason, in my opinion, a realistic forecast - getting a visa-free regime on the Eastern partnership conference in Riga in may 2015 ", - said the Deputy Minister in a statement released on the last working day of the week interview, " Ukrainian truth ".
However, she said, it will be can be provided that Ukraine will fulfill all the points of the plan, if the passport will be issued with no questions asked, if the level of protection of personal data is necessary, if Kiev will provide quality protection boundaries, if there is no complaint to the police.
" I think that the political will to do this - both in Ukraine and in the EU. But, of course, is " an incident of the contractor, there is the issue of money and the issue of war, " said serkal.
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