Ukraine wants full membership in the EU, and the country’s participation in the EAP shall not limit the ambitions of the country’s accession to the EU, said the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in the videoconference, the leaders of the Eastern partnership. Words Zelensky leads his press service.
“the Eastern partnership should not limit the ambition of the partners. Someone enough of the political dialogue, to strategic partnership with the EU, someone committed to the integration of the common market based on “four freedoms”, and someone, like Ukraine, require a full-fledged EU membership,” said Zelensky.
Ukraine received from the EU loan of €500 million
According to him, the Eastern partnership will be useful for Ukraine, if it will bring the country closer to EU membership.
The Eastern partnership EU project, the main stated aim of which is development of integration ties of unification with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. While Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova have declared EU membership a goal of its foreign policy.
February 19, 2019 at the time the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on the consolidation of the country’s commitment to NATO and the EU in the Constitution. According to the document, in the preamble of the basic law of Ukraine is amended — provides that the Parliament confirms that the European identity of the Ukrainian people and the irreversibility of the European and Euro-Atlantic course of Ukraine.
