The European Union fears of additional migratory pressure from immigrants from Donbass in the case of providing the Kiev visa-free regime, said on Wednesday at the parliamentary hearings in the Verkhovna Rada, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.

"they (the EU - ed.) there is some concern that additional migration pressure, and of course, this question is one of the most major," said the Minister.

According to klimkina, Kiev is obliged to show that he is able to help its displaced persons." We must prove that We are able to help all those who were injured in the Donetsk and Lugansk ", - said Klimkin.

according to him, Kiev must also provide issuing biometric passports, which were issued to Ukrainians in 2015.

Ukraine signed in June last year the Association agreement With the EU. From 1 July 2013 Ukraine switched to a simplified visa regime With the EU, Kiev now is making the transition to a visa-free regime. Kiev expects from the summit of "Eastern partnership" in Riga important decision "on promotion" in the issue of the prospects of providing Kiev visa-free regime With the EU.

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