Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin said that out of the 54 EU recommendations for lifting the visa regime, Ukraine has so far carried out 18 and is in process of carrying out 36 more.
“We don’t have unexecuted recommendations,” he said.
The minister added that the visa regime with Ukraine may be lifted in summer or fall of 2016.
“I am absolutely certain that it is possible to get the visa-free regime in the summer or early fall. But for that to happen we must adopt laws and everything must work within the framework of these laws,” Klimkin said.
The final report of the relevant EU institutions about Kyiv’s fulfillment of the Action Plan on visa liberalization is expected on December 15.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew arrived has arrived in Ukraine. Today he meets with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
“After the meeting there will be a joint press conference with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury,” according to a statement.
Earlier, on November 5, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden held a telephone conversation with President Petro Poroshenko and stated that the U.S are ready to further assist Ukraine.
Artem Kukharenko, a student of archive studies, has, at 22, become Ukraine’s youngest village head. Having received 80 percent of the votesduring the October local elections, Kukharenko is now the head of his native Podilske village in Cherkasy Oblast.
“One of the main reasons why I stay in the village and don’t run away to the city looking for a better life is that I want young people to come back here. I will try to learn from the successful experience of other villages. I really don't want my village to turn into a farm," he said in an interview with Hromadske TV. "I will do everything in my power, and time will tell.”