Borrell and Kuleba discuss the next steps of Ukraine’s EU candidacy

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July 2 () –

The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, discussed this Saturday by telephone with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dimitro Kuleba, the next steps to be taken on kyiv’s candidacy to be part of the European bloc.

The EU agreed at the end of last month to grant Ukraine and Moldova the status of candidate to join the European bloc, in an unprecedented decision by accepting the candidacy of a country at war and following the opinion of the European Commission that endorsed the week take this step, assuming that both countries will undertake far-reaching reforms.

“We have discussed further steps after Ukraine became an EU candidate country and coordinated positions ahead of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting,” Kuleba added of next week’s meeting in Bali, Indonesia. ).

“We both agree on the need for the seventh package of EU sanctions against Russia and we are working on it,” Kuleba said on his Twitter account about the telephone conversation with the EU’s top diplomatic official.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, celebrated this Friday before the Ukrainian Parliament that the country already has a “clear European perspective” and proclaimed that the European Union will accompany it until it “crosses the door” of entry, if He has well warned that in order to complete this journey, kyiv still has important reforms ahead of it to undertake and rebuild the country.