mr. jozep, we really meet here despite the war, we talk about european integration, we hold the association council, and this is our civilizational choice to be europeans, to be part of europe, the ukrainian people have demonstrated strong unity for the sake of the european future, and the authorities of ukraine will make every effort to make our country's path to full eu membership was also fast and did not take years or decades at the meeting of the association council, we discussed the algorithm of actions for the transition to the negotiation process regarding the accession of ukraine to the eu, i believe that a joint approach will allow all of us to gain an understanding of the time frame for the transition to the negotiation process regarding ukraine's membership in the eu. i would like to thank the eu partners for the comprehensive sanctions , military, financial and humanitarian aid at this crucial time for us, we felt the true

leadership of the eu, we are grateful for such important and weighty assistance ukraine is fighting and will fight until victory. unfortunately, we don't see any signs that russia is ready to end the war, so we need more modern weapons, primarily air defense against missile defense against the naval fire system heavy armored vehicles rocket salvo fire systems airplanes unmanned aerial vehicles highly appreciate the increase to two and a half billion euros of the budget of the european peace fund intended to compensate the costs of the eu member states to help our armed forces because the strengthening of the defense capabilities of our military and the expansion of the sanctions pressure on russia - these are two key factors for our joint victory grateful for the adoption of the seventh package of sanctions at the same time

we call on partners to increase pressure on primarily the aggressor state. due to such measures as the introduction of a full energy embargo and the disconnection of all russian and belarusian banks from the swift system, we hope that the eu will apply a global sanctions regime for human rights violations by russian citizens on the territory of ukraine before the next meeting of the ukrainian summit. the eu is sincerely grateful for the decision of the eu regarding the provision of emergency macro-financial assistance to ukraine in the amount of up to nine billion euros, we have already received the first billion euros from this amount, which has become significant supporting ukraine in these difficult times, we count on the fastest possible payment of the second and third tranches of this assistance package, which is important for us. today, we also discussed joint steps to integrate ukraine into the internal market of the

european union. called energy, customs, transport, digital and economic visa-free, and despite all the challenges , we can talk about the achieved results today i would like to thank you for the received invitation to join the convention on the common transit regime and the convention on simplification of formalities and trade in goods. ukraine has already completed the internal procedures and is ready to join the customs visa-free program as of october 1 of this year. today, we also signed agreements on the accession of ukraine to cooperation programs with the eu and on customs and tax issues, customs and fiscals, participation in these programs will contribute to cooperation in the customs and tax fields, we are grateful for the high evaluation of ukraine in the direction digital transformations and plan to expand our cooperation with the aim of integration into the eu's single digital market. i am glad to welcome

today's signing of the agreement with the digital europe program, an eu program with a budget of one and a half billion euros, the purpose of which is to develop europe's potential in key areas of digital technologies among our further priorities for ukraine's accession to roaming in the eu space at the same time i am grateful to the institution named after and the european mobile operator for the operational temporary decision to reduce or eliminate roaming tariffs for ukrainians at this time, we are also determined to accelerate the full integration of energy markets with the european union. after all , we all already feel the benefits of energy visa-free synchronization of the ukrainian energy system with the european intossi system against the background of the eu's efforts to reduce dependence on russian energy carriers, the export of electricity from ukraine can replace significant volumes of gas imports from russia, ukraine also has the largest budget for underground

gas storage in europe, part of the volume of more than 30 we can offer billions of cubic meters of these storages to our european partners for the formation of their gas reserves in conditions of unreliability of gas supplies from the russian federation and an unstable market. we highly appreciate the solidarity and support of the eu in the field of trade. the unprecedented measures for temporary liberalization of trade already provide ukrainian producers with concrete opportunities to increase exports. to the european union strengthen our economy and contribute to further integration into the eu internal market, i am sure that these measures within the framework economic visa-free will be the first step on the way to the full and permanent liberalization of trade between ukraine and the european union, among our strategic priorities is also the conclusion of the acca agreement, and we welcome the resumption of the mission of the preliminary assessment of quality infrastructure and count on the completion of the work as soon as possible from

the end of june 22 in 2018, ukraine also joined the agreement on the liberalization of road freight transport, or the so-called visa-free transport, we are grateful to the european union for that and also for the solidarity ways initiative, which is designed to facilitate the export of ukrainian agricultural products to the eu and the unhindered import of other goods, separate thanks to the european commission for approving the updated maps of the trans-european transport network tnt , the extension of the main european transport corridors to ukraine - this is actually a powerful signal of solidarity with our country and a serious contribution to the promotion of exports from of ukraine to the eu , we also count on the quick inclusion of the ukrainian parts of the danube river, the mouth of the danube, the rapids and kilia, to tnt - this will contribute to the provision and the acceleration of agricultural exports from ukraine to the eu and other countries of the world is very important today, in conclusion,

i want to sincerely thank you for the fruitful and constructive negotiations today among partners and friends , we laid the foundations for the successful holding of the 25th summit of ukraine. the eu is grateful for the positive evaluation of the progress achieved by the namib implementation of reforms and confirmation of the unchanged position regarding the support of our state in countering russian aggression, our european integration course, the irreversible future of ukraine in the eu, the future of the eu with ukraine, thank you dear friends, dear colleagues, comical, overt commissars, please thank me. i also congratulate prime minister schmal, first of all, we want to pay tribute to the resilience of the ukrainian people, their

endurance, and the people and the state. the state continues to function under such enormous pressure. what is war? we have covered many topics. of them, colleagues have already named, i will just name a few of them, we are very satisfied that ukraine is a candidate for the eu and this has already created a positive movement of reforms despite all the challenges, and therefore it is very important that ukraine constantly moved and did not lose interest in this during this process at this stage we

offer ukraine to be seduced by the seven steps that were recommended by the council of the european union, which are the strengthening of the rule of law, the fight against corruption, money laundering, as well as the rights of minorities, these are some of the main topics in these recommendations, and you really you can count on our support on our on our participation we will really follow the progress in kyiv very closely and hope for further promotion successful promotion of this work how said our high representative, our agenda has already advanced since our last meeting, despite the aggression of russia and in ukraine, for example

, in terms of trade relations, we have taken an unprecedented decision to introduce full liberalization of all unresolved issues related to customs, as well as protective mechanisms and the fight against dumping, they have been suspended regarding ukraine, and we believe that this is important, important help in ukraine, digital europe is a good example of bilateral cooperation, this is an important step on the way to the integration of ukraine into the single digital market in the eu, we also talked about ukraine's participation in the functioning of the telecommunications sector, we

discussed what can be done in the context of the single market, we talked about the issue of roaming, the prime minister said this, we are considering the possibility, it is a legal possibility to fully join ukraine to this space in order for ukrainians to be able to use the same tariffs as for europeans, and this applies not only to markets but also to people, so that people can maintain contacts, an agreement was signed on road transport is important in this difficult situation, all these steps together will bring our society and our countries even

closer to each other. 9.5 billion euros. we also today signed a budget support program in the form of a guarantee for additional assistance, and the people of ukraine are now facing such a problem as housing, education, schools, and we we want to help internally displaced persons and refugees from ukraine and we are also trying to

control the agricultural sector in ukraine and in addition to these urgent needs, we also discussed more long-term prospects, namely the reconstruction of ukraine after the war and we are ready to help ukraine in this we are ready to coordinate with the ukrainian authorities e infrastructure and we also count on the support of our donor partners who will participate in these efforts. in conclusion, i would like to emphasize once again as already said high representative, i want to emphasize once again our unwavering support for the sovereignty of the independence of ukraine. we also support the territorial integrity of ukraine. it is obvious to us that russia

must respect international law and must immediately stop aggression and return to the borders. our task is to make ukraine stronger and more resilient. after this aggression thank you thank you now we have time to ask a few questions dmytro national news agency of ukraine in prague during the inter-parliamentary conference on of security, we heard such calls for the eu to refuse the supply of military equipment to ukraine and to proceed to negotiations with the aggressor country, from your

point of view, how widespread are such ideas among the eu member states because this is really happening, the kremlin's narrative on this issue and how dangerous it is for unity of the country and also a question to the prime minister of ukraine european integration and full membership in the eu requires the consensus of 27 member states this may be a long process, but academic representatives of the academy suggest to include ukraine to other structures, for example to the european economic space, how acceptable are such proposals for the ukrainian side,

thank you, yes, indeed, an interparliamentary meeting, not only the european parliament was there, there were representatives of all the parliaments of the member countries, which are held from the political opinions and political positions of all the member countries of the european union and i am in a minority position, but they have the right to their expression. they have the right to speak about what worries them, the continuation of the war and so on. but i talk to governments with prime ministers and presidents who represent their countries and when we met in prague a week ago we heard

unwavering support from all our members, that is, there are political parties and members of parliament who have different opinions but they do not represent the country 's position- a member of the european union, the authorities of ukraine, the society of ukraine are absolutely monolithic and determined to achieve this goal, we are doing everything depends on us, everything is possible at a very fast pace by the end of the year, we have the ambition to fulfill all seven conditions set for us during the submission of the application, we are ready to enter into the negotiation procedure to complete the membership procedure, of course, as you can see, we are also implementing those

ambitious plans to enter all types of visa-free economic visa-free transport visa-free digital visa-free, that is, we tentatively called all these agreements and all these particles of european integration and of course it is fine and very good to have particles, but we are interested in absolutely complete integration and membership of the european union in short terms, this is the goal - this is the goal of ukrainian society, this is the goal of the ukrainian government, and i repeat, the government of ukraine is more monolithic than ever in achieving this goal, viktor, next, next question, please

, the microphone is not working, try to speak louder and just into the microphone, the microphone iran is asking for assurances, we know about nuclear energy, we know that mother left uh on a mission do you think such a request is reasonable and acceptable compared to their previous request thank you we didn't talk about that it's not on

the agenda of the association council but if you allow me to say a few words about our relationship and perhaps answer this question. i want to remind you that on august 8, almost one month ago, i presented a balanced text in which we took into account the positions of all parties, and i, as a coordinator, sometimes have to say enough is enough, this is the best optimal text that we we can write and it was very well received, i received positive feedback from all sides and we moved to the process of interaction , this is an interactive process, the interactive process here

is very good if we can come to close our position as a result and our positions converged and became closer. initially, the request we received was reasonable for both sides and all this was taken into account. we did not change the text at all, not even an iota, but recent events do not lead to convergence, they lead to a divergence of positions the positions have now not become closer and they diverge more and more in text n + 1, and this of course worries us if the price positions will approach each other, then the whole process has become endangered, i have to say that the last answer i received

if the goal is to reach this agreement as soon as possible, this agreement will not help this process. and what i am doing is continuing consultations with all other participants in the process, in particular with the united states, because this is actually a request that must be satisfied by the united states, in particular, regarding how we should move on. but it is a pity to say that i am less sure now than 20 hours earlier. even that in this process the positions can converge and that we have prospects to reach an agreement as soon as possible. let's return to ukraine and now the question of of ukrainian colleagues, a ukrainian colleague of the foundations were connected with us from kyiv, crazy serhiy sydorenko

was the first to raise his hand serhii, please open your microphone turn it on thank you i have a question for both of you prime minister myhal and representatives of the european side in ukrainian later colleagues in english, i want children about the future of ukraine and the eu, which you discussed, you briefly mentioned the fact that you presented your positions on this matter, as far as i reported, they were talking about some kind of new scheme, and about how to act in ukraine and further to the european union considering the fact that the negotiations have not yet started and we have already almost fulfilled the association agreement and the summer and that is also the question of the european colleagues so ukraine announces that we are actually almost finishing the implementation will be about the association as much as possible and that we already here to start in my negotiations regarding

the admission regarding the membership is i hope or excuse me some in fact the agreement on the association is almost finished to promise something new to the prime minister thank you promised so the weather on the association is almost fulfilled by 65%, we are very active in its implementation, we really have the ambition to complete the implementation of the association agreement quite quickly, it is impossible to replace it with other procedures, we must fulfill all the provisions that are written and signed in this agreement, in parallel , we fulfill, we have undertaken to fulfill seven conditions that were delivered along with granting ukraine the status of a candidate for the european union, respectively, in the implementation of these seven agreements, in

the parallel implementation of the association agreement, we have the ambition in the near future by the end of this year at the beginning of next year enter the next stage of our relations precisely in the negotiation procedure that precedes the actual granting of the status of a member of the european union. that is, this is the plan prescribed by the lenses of the legislation of the european union. as a member of the european union, the monolithic power of the president of the parliament of the cabinet of ministers allows us to do this very quickly and spend less time on internal political discussions, therefore we are ready to move very quickly and we demonstrate it in practice. of course, we call on our european colleagues to support us on this fast track to the realization of our aspirations. thank you. well, we will give

the floor to the door commissioner, but as you said , prime minister, the procedure of the association agreement cannot be replaced by anything else . they must be fulfilled , this step actually leads to the full fulfillment of all the statutory conditions of the commission . all the opportunities that have opened up for you due to the historical situation and as soon as you meet all the conditions, negotiations will begin, but the commission will have to conduct its assessment of this . expansion is based on

merit and expansion always depends on the extent to which the copenhagen criteria are met, when we look at our exhibition we can clearly see what needs to be done in order to continue receiving candidate status these are the seven criteria where, as we understand it, ukraine has already achieved certain progress. if you want to combine the agreement on the free trade zone and the agreement and the negotiations on the accession , there is definitely a connection because through the agreement, well, about 70% of them already come to life where are all provisions of eu legislation ukraine is moving forward in implementing this but of course the free trade agreement is different from becoming a member of the eu of course the level of responsibility is also different

including the rights that membership gives when it comes to about the process of accession to the eu, there is an institutional part of it, and there is, if we could say it like this, the working part of the institutional parts characterize the negotiations, different sectors of the negotiations, our conclusions, etc. free trade, but there is less talk about it now, but two years ago, when we restored the conditions of the eastern partnership, we gave the opportunity to any country that is a member of the european and eastern partnership to cooperate with us in those areas in which we usually do not work with third countries. and actually, you see what is already

working with ukraine, the issue of roaming, transit of customs rules, all these are elements that, of course, real integration in the work at the work level is approaching and make them real already now i think that we need to look more at the institutional aspects of this. when we talk about the european integration of ukraine, we usually say that it works in the institutional part. we will of course give our assessment that ukraine is a candidate country. next year, the 23rd year, we have just prepared our conclusion and we will still work on one part of the conclusion, namely regarding the level to which ukraine corresponds and those of the european union. we will have to do it at the end of the year, i think that there is a lot of work ahead and it is always easy

to talk about dates and next steps, but i think that the most important thing is to do it and carry out our practical work, the very last question of jessica bbc - thank you, a question from the bbc, a question for the prime minister, of course, the nord stream is one disconnected, and now there is even greater pressure on europe's energy reserves. aren't you afraid that this winter europe's commitment to supporting ukraine may decrease and the question to the high-ranking representative of the forest of the passionate prime minister and whether he will drink is e trusted that she can also implement a complete ban on issuing visas to russians. i want to answer as follows: if you look, i already talked about this evening show on russian tv channels, you

will see conversations not only about ukraine