Poroshenko has set a target to achieve the abolition of visas with the EU in 2016
The Ukrainian staff of the foreign Ministry are required to achieve the introduction of a visa-free regime with the European Union in 2016, said the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, speaking with a message to Parliament.
"Diplomats - to make an effort... to prevent the abolition of the punishment of the West against Russia). In 2016 - to get visa-free regime with the EU ", - said Poroshenko, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". As before said the Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma, Georgia and Ukraine have the opportunity to receive a visa-free regime with the EU in 2016, if the European Union will present a positive report on the issue by the end of 2015. Prior to this, the source said that the European Union will be able to note the visa regime with Ukraine only after graduation or complete freeze on its territory of armed conflict. 3 of the six countries participating in the project " Eastern partnership - Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in 2014 signed the Treaty on the Union with the EU. Russian envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov stated before that work on a final Declaration rather tense: some countries want to strengthen anti-Russian orientation, and others that create obstacles.