Shmyhal, Borrell agree to hold next meeting of EU-Ukraine Association Council in April

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell have agreed to hold the next meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council in April 2022.

According to Ukrinform, the head of government announced this in a post on Twitter.

"We have updated the agenda of our bilateral relations. We have agreed to hold the next meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council in April," Shmyhal said.

Shmyhal thanked Borrell for this important visit to Ukraine amid the escalation of the situation by Russia, because "the security of Ukraine is the security of the whole of Europe."

Borrell is on a visit to Ukraine on January 4-6 at the invitation of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

On January 5, the Ukrainian and EU foreign policy chiefs visited the contact line in Luhansk region, where they got acquainted with the current security situation in the area of the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict.

On January 6, Borrell wrote on Twitter that he had witnessed the consequences of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. He stressed that any further military aggression would have massive consequences.

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