You're reading: Poroshenko wants to meet with MPs to persuade them to vote for visa package bills

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has stated his intention to hold another meeting with Verkhovna Rada parliamentarians to persuade them to vote for the draft bills require to secure visa free travel with the European Union.

“Yesterday was next to the last day, the last one will be on Tuesday. I’ll have one more meeting with them, the parliamentarians. I’ll do everything for the state to receive the opportunity of visa free travel,” Poroshenko said on Friday while delivering a speech to the students and staff of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.