WARSAW, Feb. 4. Poland did not include a declaration on its willingness to lobby the EU decision on granting Ukraine visa-free regime, in the Roadmap (RM), signed with Ukraine. It was reported by “Kommersant-Ukraine”.

Preparing the document they failed to achieve success on the key visa issues for Ukraine.

Kiev wanted to fix the plans for the abolition of visas in 2012, linking this rule to the preparations for European Football Championship.

Warsaw has refused to include even the declaration of readiness of Poland to lobby the EU decision on granting Ukraine visa-free regime, in the document.

As a result, the road map included only a point, distant from the concrete, that Poland supports the holding of internal reforms aimed at fulfilling the requirements of European Union.

President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski, commenting on the position of Warsaw, said that Poland does not have a casting vote on visa issues in the EU.

“Poland will do its utmost to assist Ukraine in fulfilling the requirements (road map for visa-free regime with the EU. - Ed.). But then there will be the evaluation by European institutions. And it will be a rigorous evaluation”, - Polish leader has warned.

The economic section of the road map was one of the biggest ones, but at the same time, it is one of the most vague. The parties told about mutual protection of investors, as well as the need for a series of framework of inter-agency agreements, in particular in the aviation, railroad and sea transport.

It is also difficult to consider the results of the negotiations in the energy sector successful. Despite the proposals of Ukraine, Poland refused to declare any deadlines associated with the completion of oil pipeline “Odessa - Brody” to Plock and Gdansk. The presidents only expressed the promise “to prepare a joint action plan with respect to its construction”.

“We are ready, the pipeline has been already operating in direct mode, and we want the building to be continued. Previously, the Poles were ready to call the period of construction, now - not. What has changed - ask them,”- said the Minister of Energy and Mines, Yuriy Boyko.

The section on security and defense, Ukraine and Poland have agreed “to exchange experiences in the context of cooperation with NATO” and “continue to work on a joint Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade to participate in peacekeeping operations under UN auspices.”

As previously reported, the presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Viktor Yanukovych and Bronislaw Komorowski, signed the road map of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation for 2011-2012.

According to the document, the priority of Ukrainian-Polish relations will be cooperation in the sphere of European integration of Ukraine.

Poland is obliged to “provide support in preparing and implementing the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU, including the establishment of a free trade zone” as well as to “facilitate EU assistance to Ukraine, including financial, to carry out extensive reforms”.