The maximum period of 90 days during which the Moldovan freight and passenger carriers could stay in Ukraine will be extended. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the implementation of the protocol that will solve the problem of freight and passenger carriers in the nearest future. The announcement was made in a meeting with Prime Minister Pavel Filip, IPN has learned from the Government’s press service.

Pavel Filip said that in terms of joint projects, the two states also advance at a dynamic pace and the problems that appear are solved swiftly and for the benefit of the citizens of the two countries. He gave as an example the launch of joint control at the Moldova-Ukrainian border on a number of segments, including the Transnistrian one.

In this connection, Petro Poroshjenko expressed the Ukrainian side’s readiness to extend the joint control at other state border crossing points and said the common measures to ensure security in the region and to promote the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the two states should be stepped up. He underlined the importance of further developing cooperation within international organizations and of intensifying the economic relations.

The two officials also discussed the implementation of the protocol on the liberalization of road and air transport between Moldova and Ukraine and exchanged opinions on the domestic situation in the two countries