At a meeting with Ukrainian legislators visiting Lithuania, the country’s president, Gitanas Nauseda, promised to promote political support for Ukraine, and also called for efforts to implement reforms in order to launch EU membership talks.
This is reported by Ukrinform with reference to LRT.
He emphasized that the politicians’ task is to rally the international community around the idea of political support for Ukraine, and assured that Lithuania consistently calls on its allies to increase and speed up military assistance to Kyiv. Nauseda also noted that Ukraine’s place is in the European Union and NATO, therefore it is important for the country to take advantage of the window of opportunity that has opened so that a positive decision on the start of negotiations on joining the EU is made by year-end.
The leader of Lithuania noted that a necessary condition to this end is the implementation of the reforms specified in the European Commission’s conclusion on Ukraine’s EU membership application. The delegation of Ukrainian lawmakers, which arrived in Lithuania on Monday, also met with the Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen. More meetings with Lithuanian officials are scheduled, as well as a trip to Druskininkai, home to a rehabilitation center where Ukrainian soldiers are undergoing treatment.
The Verkhovna Rada delegation will be in Lithuania until Thursday.
