The European Parliament's monitoring mission to Ukraine led by Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament and Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland has demonstrated a capacity to deliver outcomes that are necessary for the upcoming strategic decisions in the relations between Kyiv and Brussels.

"We believe this mission has demonstrated a capacity to deliver outcomes that are necessary for the upcoming strategic decisions in the relations between the European Union and Ukraine. We recognize that much work still needs to be done and that, as a privileged channel of communication, the mission can assist in making further progress," reads a summary of the activities of the EP monitoring mission posted on the European Parliament's Web site.

The reporters noted that the mission has been facilitated in its work by the good cooperation with the Ukrainian authorities, "which has been indispensable for opening hospital, prison and institutional doors and in providing access to a large volume of relevant documents."

"The mission has endeavored to maintain its complete independence and impartiality, in a transparent and open manner engaging with all relevant actors in Ukraine and not allowing any side to instrumentalize it for its own purposes," Cox and Kwasniewski said.

They said that Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko remains in hospital care, without video monitoring and attended only by female guards. She has not been able to attend Court hearings and has not been transferred back to the colony.

According to the summary, Former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko was pardoned on 7 April 2013 and released immediately. Former Acting Minister of Defense Ivaschenko was released on August 14, 2012 and his travel ban lifted.

"Since December 2012, the mission has paid close attention to a number of related cases brought against MP [Hryhoriy] Nemyria (of Batkivschyna party and Chair of the Rada Committee on European Integration) and Mrs Tymoshenko's lawyer Mr [Serhiy] Vlasenko," the report says.

According to the key statistics indicated in the document, the mission made 14 visits to Ukraine, spent 40 days of meetings in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mena penal colony, Yalta; attended 13 court hearings, eight meetings with President Viktor Yanukovych, 14 meetings with Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, two meetings with the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, seven meetings with Yulia Tymoshenko in Kharkiv hospital, four meetings with Lutsenko (two in court, two in prison), five meetings with Valeriy Ivaschenko, 17 meetings with Tymoshenko's representatives (lawyer and family), twelve meetings with opposition leaders (Batkivschyna and UDAR), ten meetings with EU-27 Heads of Mission, three meetings with Ukraine's former Presidents (Presidents Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yuschenko), five meetings with NGOs.

Cox and Kwasniewski also spent 15 days in Brussels and Strasbourg, made six meetings with the European Commission (including five times with European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule and once with European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht), five meetings with External Action Service, two meetings with representatives of the Council of Europe and the Venice Commission, ten debriefing meetings at the European Parliament, 27telephone talks with Ukrainian authorities and opposition leaders.