Arseniy Yatsenyuk calls on Foreign Ministry to ensure obtaining a legal report from European partners regarding adopted by the Parliament "visa-free" laws

"We should obtain as soon as possible a final report on the compliance of Ukraine with the criteria for introducing a visa-free regime", stressed Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk during a Government session on Wednesday, November 18.

The Prime Minister reminded that the Parliament had adopted a number of crucial laws, "but so far we have no a stance of the European Commission whether the adopted laws adhere to the criteria necessary to introduce a visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union".

Arseniy Yatsenyuk called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the Ministry of Justice to promptly appeal to our European partners with a request "to provide a legal report whether the legislation endorsed by the Verkhovna Rada meets the requirements which had been set by our European partners to ensure obtaining of a positive assessment report enabling to introduce a visa-free regime."

"In case relevant legislation requires changes, the next plenary week we should have a specific text", he stressed.

The Head of the Government noted he would appeal to the Parliament to ensure compliance of the approved laws with the requirements and criteria of the EU "and facilitate the European Union missions to provide a positive report on granting a visa-free regime for Ukraine".