The liberalization of the visa regime between Ukraine and the EU in the near future should not wait, said in an interview Last news Russia's permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov. "I think that in the near future some progress will not. If I have mentioned when obgovarivaya migration topics EU countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia - ed.) say that they are waiting for the influx of Ukrainian immigrants, who in anticipation of the influx of immigrants in sound mind and memory will be to abolish visas with Ukraine?" he said. according to his statement, the Commission may give a positive report about the readiness of Ukraine to the Liberalization of visas, but the final decision on their removal in the end for the EU countries. The Ukrainian authorities hope to introduce visa-free regime with the European Union on 1 January 2016. The country's leader Petro Poroshenko called for the abolition of visas with the EU a priority task for today, which depends on the implementation of major reform package. The President asked in a persistent form until August 17 to perform all the technical tasks, for example, the improvement of the law on the battle against illegal activities of officials and the improvement of monitoring over the border. in the document adopted on the results held in may in Riga summit of the Eastern partnership, it was noted that the summit participants welcomed the progress made by Georgia and Ukraine to implement their action plan on visa Liberalisation, however, does not mention the possibility of the abolition of visas for these States in 2016. Also stresses that the summit participants expect from Ukraine and Georgia completion of the second phase of action on visa Liberalisation once all objectives will be accomplished through the implementation of all necessary reforms. The full text of the interview is available on the Internet office of ria. EN.