Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, during an online speech at the EU Council of Foreign Ministers, said that Ukraine is counting on tangible practical results of the Ukraine-EU Summit, as well as a positive assessment of the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission, which will make it possible to start pre-accession negotiations as early as 2023. This is discussed on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

“We have high expectations from the EU-Ukraine Summit on February 3 and the joint meeting of the Government of Ukraine and the EU College on the eve of the Summit. We look forward to tangible practical results of both events,” Kuleba said..

According to the Minister, Ukraine is finalizing the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission and is counting on a positive report from the European Commission this spring. He stressed that Ukraine also expects a positive assessment of its efforts to implement the recommendations to be included in the final declaration of the Ukraine-EU summit on February 3.

“We are convinced that the pre-accession negotiations should begin as soon as possible after the implementation by Ukraine of the recommendations and the positive assessment of the European Commission. Ukraine is making every effort, and I am convinced that we must start pre-accession negotiations before the end of 2023. No games or narrow political interests should interfere,” the head of Ukrainian diplomacy added..

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Recall, earlier it was reported that after a telephone conversation with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen agreed to visit Kyiv. It is indicated that Cohen will become the highest Israeli official who will come to Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.