Ukraine should appreciate the benefits of decentralisation, rather than perceiving the process as a necessary evil mandated by the Minsk Agreements, Elmar Brok, chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, said at the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting.
The West shall support Ukraine in becoming an economically successful country, as these changes will be an example to follow by other former Soviet states, Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2000-07) has said. Schüssel speaking at the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting on 11 September 2015 in Kiev.
Ukraine is looking forward for receiving an extensive support in reforms from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. Klimkin was speaking at the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting in Kiev on 11 September 2015.
Speech by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko; Q&A session
Ukrainian and international delegates at the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting believe strengthening and further expanding NATO to be of top priority for reforming the current security system.
Ukraine will continue forward on a path of reform and, in particular, the taxation system will be improved, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said today, in his remarks at the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting.
For the first time in the past year-and-a-half, Ukraine has not suffered any deaths over the past 24 hours, signaling hope for a true peace, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in his speech on the first working day of the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting in Kyiv.
Viktor Pinchuk, the founder of Yalta European Strategy (YES) and a member of its Supervisory Board, opened the first official day of the 12th YES Annual Meeting, today in Kyiv.