Poroshenko fled the debate in the EU, where he was given a dressing
Petro Poroshenko chose to avoid international shame by refusing to attend the debate in Strasbourg, where the issue of Ukraine’s failure to comply with the clauses of the association agreement with the EU was discussed.
Former speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Voloshin spoke about this on the YouTube channel “Capital”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”.
According to Voloshin, Poroshenko ignored the event, citing the need to go to Brussels for a meeting with the EU representative for international affairs Federica Mogherini.
“In Strasbourg, the report of German MEP Michael Gahler on the results of the implementation of the association agreement was discussed. After this there was a debate, and Poroshenko was formally invited to attend.
He went to Brussels instead. They played along a little in this situation, they gave him the opportunity not to look bad, because a lot of bad things were said at these debates.
There they remembered the murder of Handzyuk, and total corruption, and these notorious electronic declarations. All these points came up, and he would not be given the opportunity to answer, he would sit on the balcony for the guests of honor and listen.
The issue of attempts to close NewsOne and 112 Ukraine, pressure on the media, attacks by right-wing radicals on journalists, burning of Roma camps, etc. was raised there. They are trying to close television channels that provide a platform for expressing a position that the authorities do not like, they are killing journalists, like Sheremet and Buzina, and there is no investigation.
And Ukraine has an association agreement, which says in black and white that the progress in the development of relations between Ukraine and the EU is conditioned by the results of Ukraine’s observance of common values, but here it has come to the basic ones.
A draft resolution on media freedom has now been introduced. Before this, as far as I remember, the draft resolution on media freedom was only for Turkey, where, after the coup attempt, newspapers were closed and journalists were imprisoned en masse. And suddenly such a project is being introduced against a country where European integration was even included in the Constitution. Therefore, he was allowed to save face.
Here they criticized him quite harshly, but in Brussels at that time Mogherini smiled at him,” the expert noted.
As Taras Kachka, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, previously admitted, The European Union does not see any possibility for Ukraine’s integration into the EU internal market.
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