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The last meters of the conquest of Mount Everest. This is how the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, sees the path that the country must take to achieve the status of a member of the European Union.
“Imagine conquering Everest. They won the penultimate point, they didn’t look back or stop to get some air or talk about what they lacked up to the top,” explained the head of state. “How difficult it was to cross the last 1848 metres. We immediately forget our success and underestimate it.”
In the daily speech published in Presidency site It is possible to read, for Zelensky, the “first seven thousand meters” of the road should always be remembered and the Ukrainian people “should not be ashamed to talk about his achievements.”
Privatization, agrarian reforms, free voting, decentralization, anti-corruption court, administrative service centers, online public services, concepts, common airspace, visa-free industrial system, “elimination of the oligarchy,” Zelensky said. To meet the requirements of submitting an application to the European Union.“A lot has been done, and we cannot forget that.”
Concerning the “expulsion of the Russians” from the territory, the Ukrainian leader asked the citizens not to rejoice at the “criticism” of Moscow, but to be proud of Ukraine.
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