Lithuania is urging Canada to sign on to a long-term package of support for Ukraine that would funnel more investment into the Eastern European country and strengthen its ties with the West as Kyiv struggles to fight corruption and rebuild its economy despite a war with Moscow-backed forces in the east, according to the Globe and Mail.
The so-called Marshall Plan for Ukraine should now be called the "European Plan", Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius has told 112 Ukraine TV channel following the presentation of the plan in the Lithuanian Seimas for the ambassadors of the United States, Canada, Japan, and EU member states.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze says the envoys from the United States, Canada, Japan and EU countries will hear the presentation of the so-called "Marshall Plan for Ukraine" in the Lithuanian Seimas on November 6.
EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has said the European Commission (EC) received the so-called "Marshall Plan for Ukraine," but it has already the necessary tools for its implementation.
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis has stressed that Vilnius was and will remain the advocate of Ukraine in the European Union and NATO, first of all in the context of countering Russian military aggression, the Ukrainian government press service reported following a Thursday meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman in Kyiv.
Ukraine's Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv says the New European Plan for Ukraine prepared by the Seimas of Lithuania (the so-called "Marshall Plan for Ukraine") provides for at least EUR 5 billion in annual support from the European Union for the implementation of reforms aimed at the country's economic growth and development.