Following the informal bureau meeting held by visioconference on 15 May 2020, Mr Witold Jan WASZCZYKOWSKI and Mr Vadym HALAICHUK, Co-Chairs of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee stated:
"In order to maintain and further develop our cooperation even in times of Covid-19 pandemic, the bureau of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee - the interparliamentary body established by our Association Agreement - held an online informal meeting on 15 May.
We expressed our full solidarity with all nations who fight COVID-19 pandemic and to all people who suffer from it. We discussed the measures adopted in the EU and in Ukraine in this unprecedented situation, and welcomed the comprehensive support package adopted by the EU to help Ukraine face the sanitary, social and economic consequences of the pandemic, including the endorsement by the Council and the EP of a large programme of macro-financial assistance that foresees EUR 1.2 billion for Ukraine.[...]
"In order to maintain and further develop our cooperation even in times of Covid-19 pandemic, the bureau of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee - the interparliamentary body established by our Association Agreement - held an online informal meeting on 15 May.
We expressed our full solidarity with all nations who fight COVID-19 pandemic and to all people who suffer from it. We discussed the measures adopted in the EU and in Ukraine in this unprecedented situation, and welcomed the comprehensive support package adopted by the EU to help Ukraine face the sanitary, social and economic consequences of the pandemic, including the endorsement by the Council and the EP of a large programme of macro-financial assistance that foresees EUR 1.2 billion for Ukraine.[...]
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