The FINANCIAL — The EU will keep Ukraine high on its agenda and will continue its common work in all fields, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini said in a statement issued yesterday after talks with political leaders and civil society groups in Ukraine.
During her visit to Kyiv, the EU foreign policy chief met President Petro Poroshenko, and discussed concrete reforms such as “need to deliver on the anti-corruption reform, which is the key to the credibility and the sustainability of all the others.”
Concerning the Minsk agreement, both sides shared the assessment of the fact that today’s situation is a much “better position than it was the case months ago with the ceasefire finally in place and the withdrawal of weapons”. Mogherini stressed that, “the situation was of course still from ideal.”
The EU has been stepping up its support for economic and political reform throughout Ukraine to ensure a stable, prosperous and democratic future for the Ukrainian people, according to EU Neighbourhood Info.
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