KIEV, April 8 – The Ukrainian authorities are hoping that after the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga the European Union will recognize Kiev's prospects for European integration and will agree to cancel visa requirements starting January 1, 2016, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"We must get (answers to) two main questions. First: recognition of the European prospect for Ukraine. Second: support for the Ukrainian bid to secure visa-free travel from January 1, 2016," Poroshenko said after talks with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski in Kiev on Wednesday.