Kiev hopes that the European Union will revise the position of the Association Agreement with Ukraine in the field of trade in the first half of the coming year, said Olga Stefanishina, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.
“This year, we paid a lot of attention to deepening sectoral integration, we submitted to the European Commission the first proposals for revising the association agreement, assessed progress over all five years and today we are negotiating to revise the trade parameters of the agreement and hope that in the first half of 2022 we will have an agreed position of the EU”, Stefanishina said during the briefing.
The Deputy Prime Minister expressed the hope that the European Commission will not drag out the negotiation process and will allow Ukraine to submit new proposals for obtaining additional trade preferences within the framework of the association agreement.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev should get a clear prospect of membership in the North Atlantic Alliance. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg noted that there is no communication in the Alliance regarding Kiev’s entry into the organization.