Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Ukraine carries out important anti-corruption measures pursuant to requirements on visa-free regime with the EU

President Petro Poroshenko informed that the assessment mission of the European Commission noted significant progress of Ukraine in the fulfillment of requirements on visa-free regime with the EU.

In his conversation with media following the negotiations with the President of Latvia, Petro Poroshenko noted that at the beginning of November, the Parliament of Ukraine would consider recent legislative amendments Ukraine must implement for the introduction of visa-free regime.

According to the President, Ukraine has made important anti-corruption steps, particularly the establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the post of special anti-corruption prosecutor. He informed that there were 30 candidates for that post.


The President is hopeful that all anti-corruption cases would be conveyed to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau starting from December 1 in order to carry out proper independent investigation and bring corrupt officials to liability. The President noted that the number of people brought to justice for corruption had increased 17 times compared to the previous periods.

“It demonstrates that we have a political will to struggle against corruption. We have elaborated a system of struggle against that. And it is not only the aspiration for the visa-free regime. We are willing to reform the country. It is a decisive position of the entire Ukrainian nation,” the President said.

The President reminded that it had been the Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga, which had clearly demonstrated that there were no political obstacles to the introduction of visa-free regime for Ukraine. The only thing left to be done is to fulfill technical tasks enshrined in the Action Plan for Liberalization of Visa Regime with the EU.

In his turn, the President of Latvia stands for the intensification of people to people contacts. And the visa-free regime will contribute to that. According to him, the visa-free regime is an important instrument for Ukraine’s integration into the EU.



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