The Ukrainian delegates took part in the PACE Summer Session wide debates on “Migration factor in the European Development” and “Refugees Integration under High Pressure: the Experience”
In the course of
the session, there was delivered a short report over the migration situation in
Ukraine. The recent years were said for Ukraine to be “the years of large leak”
as a huge portion of Ukrainians left the country for a series of reasons like
lack of powerful state capable of protection, keeping their rights, giving confidence
about their future to name a few. It was stressed it is important that we all take
into consideration the processes taking place in the migration generating
countries and be able to render a timely assistance.
“There have been lots of cases in Ukraine when Europe and the international community rendered their assistance to the country too late – just a month ago we were granted the visa free regime, whilst the negotiations had been lasted for ten years, the EU Association Agreement was talked over for years along with the next long-lasting ratification process which has successfully ended just today. We have thus a question. What could have come if Ukraine became a NATO member in 2008 at the Bucharest summit?” asked a Ukrainian parliamentarian, who was delivering the report.