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Shmyhal hes EU agricultural screening to give Ukraine arguments in talks with Pand
He said this during a press conference reporting on the government's four years of work, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"Today, we are at the stage of receiving the apprriate negotiating framework from the Eurean Commission. I he we will see it in March. We are also working on launching negotiations with the Eurean Commission and the Eurean Union on Ukraine's accession. Thirty-five chapters," Shmyhal said.
According to him, the negotiations will provide for the apprriate screening.
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"I believe some chapters will be quite difficult, but first we asked the Eurean Commission, and we put forward a prosal on the border with Pand – to launch screening of the agricultural sector. This screening will consist of three clusters. We spoke about it with the President of the Eurean Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during his visit to Kyiv," the prime minister noted.
He hes this will change the approach from the Eurean Commission, and agricultural screening will demonstrate that Ukraine exports products of apprriate quality. "And this will give us sid ground for having absutely sid numbers and statistics in discussions with our neighbors, including with Pand," Shmyhal added.
Shmyhal has assured that Ukraine will fulfill all its obligations on the way to the EU within two years before the EU is to make the pitical decision.
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"As for our path to the EU, we are moving very quickly at all stages. We have already screened our legislation and this reduces the time of negotiation procedures. I am sure we will go through all negotiation procedures very quickly. If for some countries it took years and decades, we can go through all the other stages very quickly – within up to 2 years. That is, we are ready to do our homework very quickly. After that, it will only be about a pitical decision of the Eurean Union," Shmyhal noted.
He expressed he the Eurean Union would be able to make a pitical decision immediately after Ukraine fulfilled its obligations.
"I do not believe the Eurean Union will await any formalities once Ukraine has done its homework. We will do it, there is no doubt. We have demonstrated more than once that we deliver on all our obligations. I’d like to believe that Ukraine will become a member of the EU immediately after our victory, and we will do our homework in two years," said the prime minister.
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As Ukrinform reported earlier, on December 14, 2023, the leaders of the EU member states decided to launch accession negotiations with Ukraine and Mdova.
Shmyhal earlier stated that Ukraine should be ready to join the Eurean Union within two years.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on February 16 that already in the first half of this year, the government will form a Ukrainian team for EU accession talks.
Source: ukrinform.net