Ukraine counts on EP's decision on visa-free travel by Nov 21
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy and chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok called on the European Parliament to vote for the introduction of the visa-free regime with Ukraine by the Euromaidan anniversary dated November 21, 2016.
Parubiy met with Brok at the Jean Monnet Conference, the Ukrainian parliament's press service reported.
"Andriy Parubiy said that the anniversary the Euromaidan events on November 21, 2016 will be an important symbolic date for the completion of the liberalization of the visa regime, because it is under the European integration banner that Ukrainians went out on Maidan. Elmar Brok explained that the delay in the completion of the liberalization of the visa regime was related to internal institutional problems of the European Union and has nothing to do with issues of liberalization of the visa regime per se," the report says.
Parubiy handed to Brok a statement signed by the chairman and members of most of the factions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in which they call to complete the process of liberalization of the visa regime by the date of the anniversary of Euromaidan events.