Klimkin: Ukraine should prepare for applying in the EU in 2020
Ukraine should prepare for applying for membership in the European Union in authorities stated before 2020, otherwise this process can last for 25 years, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, reports "European true" in his own microblog on Twitter.
"Application for EU membership in 2020 - not bravado. If not will do for five (years), we will not be able to do in 25. And then - long hearing, " said Klimkin on the first day of the weekend at the Ministry of foreign Affairs during a meeting with your followers on Twitter.
first before meeting with the head of the European Parliament Martin Schulz in Kiev, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he expects to apply for EU membership in 5-6 years. According to Poroshenko, Ukraine by this time must meet the criteria of the EU. Later Schultz during an interview with "Ukrainian truth" said that the desire Poroshenko to write a statement on the country's membership in the European Union in six years is " very ambitious ".
Ukraine and the EU signed on 27 June 2014 in Brussels, the economic part of the Treaty on the unity involving the development of a free trade zone. Kiev hopes that all countries ratify the EU Association agreement with Ukraine before the end of the current year.
in early may, Poroshenko said that the French Senate is the upper house of Parliament ratified the document. The full document will come into force after ratification by the national parliaments of member countries of the EU. According to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine, it may take from one to three years. Authorized countries to the EU Kostiantyn Yeliseyev predicts that the EU in the near future will complete the ratification process of the Treaty of Union with Ukraine.