UZHGOROD, June 12 – With the implementation of visa-free travel to the European Union countries, Kiev now has more arguments for the prospective membership in the European Union, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"I would like to say that the greater progress we show on the path of reforms, the more arguments the Ukrainian people and I have to give Ukraine a prospect of the membership in the EU as well. Because Ukraine is a European country in accordance with the Article 49 of the Rome Statute," Poroshenko said in his joint statement with Slovak President Andrej Kiska at the Uzhgorod border crossing point in Zakarpattia region on Sunday.