Zelensky: Ukraine interested in joining Three Seas Initiative

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Sept. 1, 2019 at 9:44 am

Jean-Claude Juncker (C), President of the European Commission and representatives of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI or TSI) takes part in a TSI Summit, on Sept. 18, 2018 at the Cotroceni Palace, the Romanian Presidency headquarters in Bucharest. The Three Seas Initiative, launched in 2015, is a forum of European Union countries in Central and Eastern Europe (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) aiming at boosting connectivity and facilitating real convergence among EU Member States.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is interested in participating in Poland’s Three Seas Initiative (3SI).

“Our state is interested in becoming an active participant in regional projects and initiatives of the Polish state, for example, such as the 3SI,” Zelensky said at a joint press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on August 31.

He recalled that now Ukraine is cooperating in the construction of the trans-European Via Carpathia highway.

“We also discussed the ambitious project for the E40 waterway,” Zelensky said.

The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) provides for the creation of a community of countries in the region between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas.