The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine presented the Lithuanian parliamentarians with the Ukrainian Parliament’s honorary diplomas for their particular merits to the people of Ukraine.
In the course of the meeting the head of the Ukrainian Parliament expressed his gratitude to the Lithuanian colleagues for their initiative regarding “A New European Plan for Ukraine”, the so called “Marshal Plan”, for their wide and positive influencing over the Ukraine’s euro-integration processes and granting the free visa travel. “You have topped a range of Ukrainian politicians in being beneficial to Ukraine,” he stated.
A.Parubiy then underlined there were not only the matter of providing money, but also the mutual obligations standing behind the above plan.
He was also sure the Ukrainian reforms performed better and faster once attached to a task project, like it had been with the visa free travel or getting a regular IMF’s aid. Putting of such a task project into effect might be an interim step on the pathway to the European Union.
Andrius Kubilius, the Deputy Chair of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on European Affairs agreed in this turn that there was the need in a similar buffer stage for giving a real boost to the country’s economy with the view to enter the European Union in the near future.
Hanna Hopko, Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, who was also attending the meeting, prizing high the above mentioned Lithuanian merits, stated that “our Lithuanian friends made a 500-km bike ride alongside the front line in order to see the inside of Donbas with their own eyes”. She also thanked them a lot for their substantial aid to the Ukrainian people, and spoke for further enlarging of the inter-parliamentary collaboration with the friendly countries heading towards the above plan for Ukraine.
As a final point, the Ukrainian Parliament’s Chair noted it would be utterly desirable to further on a close liaison between the states regardless of any mutual problems or conflicts yet in exist.