Pavlo Klimkin / Photo from UNIAN

"The candidate is agreed, the documents were sent. This is one of the people who has always worked actively with the committee members, a person with relevant experience in international organizations," Klimkin said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Mykola Tochytskyi was the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe. On February 4, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to appoint him as Ukraine's representative to the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community simultaneously.