Ukraine and the European Union have outlined
around 80 priorities for 2010, which Ukraine promised to implement on
its way to signing an association agreement with the EU, the director
of the coordination bureau for European and Euro-Atlantic integration
of the Ukrainian government's secretariat, Vadym Triukhan has said, National radio reported.
Triukhan and Director for
Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and Central Asia in the European
Commission's Directorate-General for External Relations Gunnar Wiegand
held in Kyiv the first meeting of a joint committee as part of the
Ukraine-EU Association Agenda recently signed by both sides.
Wiegand
said that the issue concerns practical steps by Ukraine in implementing
concrete reforms in fight against corruption, the adaptation of laws
regulating government procurement, measures on phytosanitary
protection, as well as other economic and political issues that could
bring Ukraine closer with the EU.
He also expressed confidence that
Ukraine would continue its Eurointegration course that was declared by
both presidential candidates, Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych
and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Wiegand expressed hope that talks
between Ukraine and the EU on signing the association agreement would
end in 2010.
