Ukraine and Poland hope to ratify an agreement on local border crossing as soon as possible, Ukrainian and Polish Foreign Ministers Volodymyr Ohryzko and Radoslaw Sikorski said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.
“We will now ask our parliaments to ratify this agreement quickly,” Sikorski said.
He said that both governments had done a great deal of work in signing the local border crossing agreement and this document should now be ratified by the Polish parliament.
Sikorski also said that Poland is actively extending its diplomatic presence in Ukraine. He said that Poland closed 20 diplomatic offices in various countries in 2008 and is planning to open three new consulates in Ukraine in 2009.
He said that Poland had resolved all of the problems with visa queues in its consulate in Lviv, where the number of visas issued to Ukrainians has doubled.
Sikorski also said that his country is doing all it can to decrease the cost of Schengen visas to Poland. He said that visa prices had already been cut for 16 categories of Ukrainians.
