Receiving on December 21 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Dietmar StЯdemann, Chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Ivan Pliushch noted that, while moving Westward, Ukraine tries to keep equal partnership relations with all its neighbors. Conversely, politicians who try to compare or identify the Eurasian Union or “hypothetical Slavic union” with the European Union, toward which Ukraine orients itself, “are not only wrong, but they also brazenly lie to their voters,” UNIAN reports.
Mr. Studemann welcomed Ukraine’s desire to integrate itself into the European community and pointed out that Germany would further maintain bilateral ties with Ukraine and try to be Ukraine’s advocate in Europe. The ambassador noted that in his opinion it is advisable that bilateral contacts on the parliamentary level be filled with concrete content.






