The plan of assistance for Ukraine will be presented at the Eastern partnership summit.
A long-term plan of assistance to Ukraine (“Marshall Plan for Ukraine”) will be represented at the Eastern partnership summit in November.
This was stated by former Prime Minister of Lithuania and current member of the Seimas Andrius Kubilius, who is one of the authors of the document.
According to Kubilius, “a Marshall Plan for Ukraine” was approved by the Seimas of Lithuania also supported him in the Congress of the European people’s party (EPP) and praised in the State Department and the U.S. Congress.
“And now we’re moving on, planned before the end of June to go to Berlin and Brussels. There are also a number of conferences, say, in London in early July. And finally, we will present a “Marshall Plan for Ukraine” at the Eastern partnership summit in November, where hopefully the mention of this document appears in the final Declaration of the summit,” – said Kubilius.
Deputy of the Lithuanian Seimas underlined that working to “Marshall Plan for Ukraine” was not only a Declaration, but based on real financial resources.
“And here we see the opportunity to use the resources of EU External Investment Plan (European external investment plan), which the European Commission provides up to €88 billion by 2020. The money, as stated in this plan, aimed mainly at Africa. But a large part may go to other countries. Already there is an initiative of the German government of Angela Merkel, which adopted as its initiative the so-called “Marshall Plan for Africa,” said ex-Prime Minister of Lithuania.
According to him, it is important that such an instrument was for the countries of the Eastern partnership in the first place – Ukraine.
As noted Kubilius, assistance for Ukraine should not go to the state budget and for specific projects, as it was in the original “Marshall plan.”
Recall that the Marshall plan – the program of aid to Europe after world war II. Nominated in 1947, the American Secretary of state George C. Marshall and came into effect in April 1948.
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