Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze deputy prime minister for European integration has said that a main task in her post is to help Ukrainian producers to enter the European markets as much as possible.

"The top priority for me is to make the Association Agreement real. It must work for Ukrainian reforms. Barriers on the way of assistance that both the European Commission and EU members are ready to provide should be removed, as this hinders the acceptance of this assistance and its absorption. Another main task is to help our regions and Ukrainian producers to enter the EU market as much as possible (of course, in cooperation with the Economic Development and Trade Ministry)," she said in an interview with the Ukrainian weekly newspaper Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.

She said that after preliminary consultations with Volodymyr Groysman I had an impression that he understands a certain institution is required to have the post of Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration effective.

"I hope that we will manage to distribute duties and colleagues would back me that the deputy prime minister for European integration gets a chance of really influence the coordination, implementation monitoring and promotion of important steps in European integration. I think that the issue will be settled via distribution of duties among deputy prime ministers," she said.

She said that a large group of professionals has been gathered in the office of the envoy for European integration.

"It could be used to continue forming the full-featured office (bureau) with a team of professionals," she said.

"I hope that we will manage to attract funds of the European Commission to additionally engage specialists who maybe at first would not go to the civil service, but they will cooperate in a certain form with the office of the deputy prime minister. Then we will actively start introducing the reform of the civil service. These people could later come to the civil service, which I think will become more interesting and attractive for everyone who has knowledge and desire to work with the state," she said.