KYIV, May 31 - Ukraine is completing consultations with the European Commission on its involvement in the international environmental program LIFE, launched in 1992, with a budget of more than EUR 5.5 billion for 2021-2027, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets said.

We are completing consultations on Ukraine's accession to LIFE, and I am sure that within a few weeks, maybe a month, we will invite the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius to Ukraine to finalize our agreements and join the modern financial instrument with a budget of EUR 5.5 billion," Strilets said on the air of the UARazom nationwide telethon.

The minister noted that at the opening of the ongoing European Green Week, Sinkevicius urged Europeans to pay close attention to the issue of involving Ukraine in the LIFE program.

The attitude of the European Commissioner towards Ukraine is so warm that he clearly said that we should pay attention to the restoration of Ukraine under the LIFE program. This gives me confidence that we will soon receive concrete funds for the implementation of specific projects," the minister described the situation. (om/ez)