Pere Westerberg

Speaker of Riksdag of Kingdom of Sweden Pere Westerberg during the meeting with Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn in Kyiv, on Thursday, May 27, 2009. After the meeting Volodymyr Lytvyn said that Ukraine has to do “ a lot of home works” on a way to EU. He added that this is a position of two sides. According to the words of Volodymyr Lytvyn, Ukraine has “to have economic, political and social certainty in order to deepen its relations with European commonwealth”. Pere Westerberg reminded that Sweden has been presiding in EU from July 1. He underlined that the priorities will be: changing of climate, issues on improving of free trade. He also noted that the political parties of Sweden support an idea of broadening of EU. According to his words, it is very important for Ukraine to work in a direction of struggle against corruption, providing supremacy of law and improving of law enforcement system. Pere Westerberg also underlined an importance of development of initiative of “Eastern partnership”. He also said that EU will “try to establish a dialogue with Russia and Muslim world, because it is extremely important”. According to his words, it should be mutual understanding between countries. Photo by Anastasia Sirotkina/POOL/UNIAN