The meetings held by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko in Brussels on July 18, 2011 have shown that European partners have become more willing to support the EU integration aspirations of Kyiv, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported.
"A meeting of the Friends of Ukraine group at the level of the foreign ministers of the EU member states, talks with EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, and a conference at the European Policy Centre with the participation of EU Commissioner for Enlargement and ENP Stefan Fule and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, have witnessed significant progress in understanding the sincerity of the Ukrainian choice in favor of the EU and the high price in the form of painful reforms, which the Ukrainian society is ready to pay for this choice," the director of the ministry’s information policy department, Oleh Voloshyn, told Interfax-Ukraine.
He said that not only "the most ardent friends of our country" in the European Union, but also skeptics were now ready to talk about support, including financial support, for our country for the period of its meeting the requirements of the agreement on a free trade area, which, along with the association agreement, is to be signed by the end of this year.
Source: http://www.kyivpost.com
