Oleksandr Korniienko: We are a powerful team on the European integration path, ready and already fulfilling all the requirements

Press Service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
12 January 2023, 12:48

«We are all determined to join the EU and are ready to fulfil all the requirements and work at the political level for Ukraine to become a full member of the European Union,» – the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Korniienko said on the air of the national telethon «UA together».

«It is impossible to fulfil all the requirements of the European Commission in one day, but we will work to make it effective. We will implement the laws and European directives in our legislation,» said Oleksandr Korniienko.

The First Vice Speaker stressed that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has a decisive role in this – to adopt the main draft laws: «We are determined to fulfil all formal requirements in full coordination with the relevant structures: European Commission, Council of Europe, Venice Commission».

«We are a powerful team led by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, which is working on the European integration path to maximally convey the position that is now in society, » he noted, adding that no country in Europe had 85 percent of citizens «for» the EU accession on the eve of joining the EU, as it is now in Ukraine.

«And our defenders are now fighting for the independence, sovereignty and freedom of Ukraine, for the future that we see together with Europe,» summed up the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Korniienko.