Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he will do his utmost to prevent the blocking of visa liberalization for Ukraine with the European Union.

"We should not cut down momentum, and I'll be warding off such initiatives – I won't let this process be stalled," Poroshenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

In his words a system for electronic income declaration should be launched. "This is in our interests, and the visa-free regime is only a reason for us to accelerate that process," he said.

The second issue mentioned by the president concerned the National Agency for Recovery and Management of Stolen Assets. "We cooperate both with Americans and Europeans to return the assets stolen from Ukraine, and that agency should work efficiently. Why haven't we submitted that bill [to parliament] yet? This is because we're jointly with our partners analyzing the efficiency of building that legislative initiative," he added.

The president said he hoped that the parliament would be able to support early in February all the initiatives that are Ukraine's commitments to the EU that are related to visa liberalization.