An emergency meeting of the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union (COREPER) was called for Sunday, April 26, the diplomat said.
"COREPER will gather on Sunday evening and will try to find a compromise. Now your [Ukrainian] diplomats are making every effort to save the situation," he added.
The 17th EU-Ukraine summit will be the first top-level meeting taking place under the framework of the Association Agreement.
The European Union will be represented by Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, and Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the
European Commission. Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Johannes Hahn, the Commissioner for the European Neighborhood Policy and the enlargement negotiations will also attend.
The Ukrainian delegation will be headed by President Petro Poroshenko.
Brussels wants Kiev to have its constitution reformed before this year is out, including the special status of Donbass, political decentralization and the war on corruption.
The Ukrainian side, for its part, will insist on its citizens’ visa-free access to the EU countries. According to The Wall Street Journal, the April 27 summit in Brussels will try to “stem an erosion of trust between Kiev and its Western neighbors.”
“There are sharpened concerns in Europe that Ukraine’s commitments to internal change —economic and political — haven’t been followed through which Europeans fear will, over time, intensify Kiev’s economic woes and possibly stoke tensions with Russia again,” the WSJ said in a report.
