Ukraine EU Inspiration USAGM
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- Ukraine EU Inspiration USAGM
- June 14, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: UKRAINE EU INSPIRATION HEADLINE: European Commission to Decide on Possible Ukraine Candidacy for EU Membership TEASER: The commission is set to debate the issue at a summit on June 23 and 24 PUBLISHED: Tuesday, 06/14/2022 at 8:30am BYLINE: Myroslava Gongadze DATELINE: WARSAW VIDEOGRAPHER: Bogdan Osyka VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, MPage, Salem Solomon, SV, SR VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA ORIGINAL PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X TRT: 3:15 VID APPROVED BY: mia TYPE: TVPKG/RADIO EDITOR NOTES: )) ((INTRO)) [[The European Union’s executive arm is expected to decide soon whether to recommend that Ukraine be granted candidate status for EU membership. The EU Commission — which must unanimously approve the recommendation — is set to debate the issue at a summit on June 23 and 24. While some EU leaders have signaled support for the move, some member states are more reluctant. VOA’s Myroslava Gongadze reports from Warsaw.]] ((NARRATOR)) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her recent visit to Kyiv met with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to discuss the country’s reconstruction and progress towards European Union membership as the EU is set to debate the issue in the weeks ahead. The head of the European Commission told eastern European leaders this month it’s in the EU’s strategic interest and a moral duty to welcome Ukraine into the 27-member group. Von der Leyen also said Ukraine would first have to meet EU standards and requirements. ((Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission)) “No shortcuts, no wildcat standards and those have to be met because this is true for all of us in the European Union, and we know on a daily basis how hard it is to keep these standards up among us 27.” ((NARRATOR)) Ukraine’s long-standing efforts to move closer to Europe helped spark the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, also known as the Maidan Revolution, after Ukraine’s pro-Russian-backed leader at the time refused to sign a popular trade agreement with the EU. ((NARRATOR)) The deal was eventually signed. ((NARRATOR)) Days after Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent a letter to start the process of attaining candidate status. ((NARRATOR)) But some EU members, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Austria, are reluctant to grant Ukraine candidate status. Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Emine Dzhaparova, told VOA that reluctance is an EU internal issue. ((Emine Dzhaparova, Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs)) “The main [issue] is that it is not about Ukraine, and it’s something that it’s about within EU as a crisis of vision, as a crisis of the future of the EU, with the special stress that there is the waiting list of countries, especially when it comes to the western Balkan countries, that have been waiting for so long.” ((NARRATOR)) Maria Mezentseva — who heads the Ukrainian delegation to the Council of Europe — says Ukraine has completed 63% of the terms of the EU association agreement, which is used to bring countries in the region closer to EU standards and norms. ((Maria Mezentseva, Ukrainian Delegation to the Council of Europe)) “It's going to be a green sign for Ukraine and the project of the EU, which started back in the 1950s for the purpose of promoting peace, preserving peace and creating a club for peace. So, the greenlight for us and the greenlight for the further integration and development and the red cards for Putin, so he can’t say, you know, ‘Look, you are not wanted there.’” ((NARRATOR)) The U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ((OSCE)) Michael Carpenter told VOA that Ukraine’s integration with the West is also in America’s interest. ((Michael Carpenter, US Ambassador to the OSCE)) “This is the best way for Ukraine to anchor itself in a set of institutions that preserve its democracy, its social sovereignty, its territorial integrity, and all the attributes of independence that we support and have long supported inside Ukraine.” ((NARRATOR)) After Ukraine emerges from the war – Carpenter says - it will rebuild to become a stronger, more resilient and united country than before. ((Myroslava Gongadze VOA News, Warsaw.))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: UKRAINE EU INSPIRATION HEADLINE: European Commission to Decide on Possible Ukraine Candidacy for EU Membership TEASER: The commission is set to debate the issue at a summit on June 23 and 24 PUBLISHED: Tuesday, 06/14/2022 at 8:30am BYLINE: Myroslava Gongadze DATELINE: WARSAW VIDEOGRAPHER: Bogdan Osyka VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, MPage, Salem Solomon, SV, SR VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA ORIGINAL PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X TRT: 3:15 VID APPROVED BY: mia TYPE: TVPKG/RADIO EDITOR NOTES: )) ((INTRO)) [[The European Union’s executive arm is expected to decide soon whether to recommend that Ukraine be granted candidate status for EU membership. The EU Commission — which must unanimously approve the recommendation — is set to debate the issue at a summit on June 23 and 24. While some EU leaders have signaled support for the move, some member states are more reluctant. VOA’s Myroslava Gongadze reports from Warsaw.]] ((NARRATOR)) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her recent visit to Kyiv met with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to discuss the country’s reconstruction and progress towards European Union membership as the EU is set to debate the issue in the weeks ahead. The head of the European Commission told eastern European leaders this month it’s in the EU’s strategic interest and a moral duty to welcome Ukraine into the 27-member group. Von der Leyen also said Ukraine would first have to meet EU standards and requirements. ((Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission)) “No shortcuts, no wildcat standards and those have to be met because this is true for all of us in the European Union, and we know on a daily basis how hard it is to keep these standards up among us 27.” ((NARRATOR)) Ukraine’s long-standing efforts to move closer to Europe helped spark the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, also known as the Maidan Revolution, after Ukraine’s pro-Russian-backed leader at the time refused to sign a popular trade agreement with the EU. ((NARRATOR)) The deal was eventually signed. ((NARRATOR)) Days after Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent a letter to start the process of attaining candidate status. ((NARRATOR)) But some EU members, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Austria, are reluctant to grant Ukraine candidate status. Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Emine Dzhaparova, told VOA that reluctance is an EU internal issue. ((Emine Dzhaparova, Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs)) “The main [issue] is that it is not about Ukraine, and it’s something that it’s about within EU as a crisis of vision, as a crisis of the future of the EU, with the special stress that there is the waiting list of countries, especially when it comes to the western Balkan countries, that have been waiting for so long.” ((NARRATOR)) Maria Mezentseva — who heads the Ukrainian delegation to the Council of Europe — says Ukraine has completed 63% of the terms of the EU association agreement, which is used to bring countries in the region closer to EU standards and norms. ((Maria Mezentseva, Ukrainian Delegation to the Council of Europe)) “It's going to be a green sign for Ukraine and the project of the EU, which started back in the 1950s for the purpose of promoting peace, preserving peace and creating a club for peace. So, the greenlight for us and the greenlight for the further integration and development and the red cards for Putin, so he can’t say, you know, ‘Look, you are not wanted there.’” ((NARRATOR)) The U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ((OSCE)) Michael Carpenter told VOA that Ukraine’s integration with the West is also in America’s interest. ((Michael Carpenter, US Ambassador to the OSCE)) “This is the best way for Ukraine to anchor itself in a set of institutions that preserve its democracy, its social sovereignty, its territorial integrity, and all the attributes of independence that we support and have long supported inside Ukraine.” ((NARRATOR)) After Ukraine emerges from the war – Carpenter says - it will rebuild to become a stronger, more resilient and united country than before. ((Myroslava Gongadze VOA News, Warsaw.))
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- Embargo Date June 14, 2022 09:10 EDT
- Byline Myroslava Gongadze
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America