Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-12-15-Speech-2-127"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Hour with the President of the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091215.13.2-127"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-12-15-Speech-2-1282
lpv:speaker	lp:José Manuel Barroso2
lpv:spoken text	"I think the meeting we had with Ukraine was successful. To be frank with you, our Ukrainian friends have to do more if they want us to help them more. I have been spending more time working on Ukrainian issues than on most of the Member States of the European Union, which shows the attention we give to Ukrainian concerns. This is a country that is very close to us and a country we want to be closer to. That is why we have offered them a comprehensive and innovative European Union-Ukraine association agreement. This is the most advanced status we can give to a country, barring accession, which is not possible under the current situation. There were some discussions, but if you look at the final conclusions, it is clearly reaffirmed that Ukraine is a European country, Ukraine is bound by the same European values and we want to be closer to Ukraine. We want to help them to be closer to us. I believe that it was a productive meeting, but we cannot honestly expect to create a new status for Ukraine every time there is a summit. The last summit before this was in Paris. We granted Ukraine this association possibility, but we cannot move to a new status every time there is a summit, and we had a very honest, open and friendly discussion about this with President Yushchenko and the other interlocutors."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"José Manuel Barroso,"1 "President of the Commission."1
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