Overview
- Ukraine’s prime minister delivered a revised OECD membership application after President Volodymyr Zelensky met OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann in Kyiv on Tuesday.
- Kyiv says it aims to win candidate-country status as early as this autumn and that the OECD would then set a country-specific roadmap toward full membership.
- Ukrainian officials point to years of cooperation with the OECD and say the country has implemented more than 50 OECD legal instruments under a ‘Program for Ukraine’ to align laws and governance.
- The leaders also discussed the EU financial support package, tougher sanctions on Russia, and Kyiv’s goal to open the remaining EU negotiating clusters by July 15.
- OECD accession is a multiyear process that would require further legal and anti-corruption reforms and could strengthen Kyiv’s case for reconstruction aid, deeper market access, and closer security ties with Western partners.