OREANDA-NEWS. June 27, 2013. Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov is convinced that Ukraine will fulfill all necessary conditions for signing the Agreement on association with the EU during the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius.

He announced in Luxembourg during a media coneference with Vice Prime Minister - Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland Eamon Gilmore and European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule.

“We have discussed all the issues which came up from our partners. The crucial is, and you have heard about it in addresses of Mister Minister and European Commissioner, we have belief that we are moving in the right direction and Ukraine demonstrates rather serious approaches in this area. There has left a lot to do for us, but we have belief that we will fulfill all the assumed liabilities,” Mykola Azarov has said.

At the same time he emphasized that, first of all, the reforms being carried out by the Government were necessary for Ukraine. “I would not have signed any of the points if they had contradicted interests of Ukraine,” the Prime Minister stressed and accented that Eurointegration still remained an absolute priority for Ukraine.

In turn, Commissioner of the European Union for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule noted that Ukraine had achieved progress in holding of reforms. “Nowadays there has resumed a feeling of attachment and movement in the correct direction in our relations. Ukraine has achieved not a bad progress in certain directions,” he said.

Also Stefan Fule called on Ukrainian opposition to work constructively for the sake of approval of vital Eurointegration transformations for Ukraine. “We have urged Prime Minister Mykola Azarov to do the best to create favourable environment for cooperation concerning reforms, in which the European Union is interested. At the same time I wish to call on opposition forces to take a constructive part in the work on the agenda of the European Union,” the Eurocommissioner said.

At this, he confirmed attachment of the EU concerning introduction of a free visa regime with Ukraine.