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Ukraine, Romania signed border traffic agreement

Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Ukrainian counterpart Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday in Kiev signed the small border traffic agreement between Romania's Government and Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers. 

The agreement regulates the conditions on conducting the small border traffic, namely the frequent crossing of the Romanian-Ukrainian state border by the residents of Romania's or Ukraine's border area who plan to remain in the border area of the other state, mainly for social, cultural, family or economic-justified reasons, for a period not exceeding three months of uninterrupted stay. 

The agreement applies to the inhabitants of an area of 30 kilometres on both sides of the common border, an area that can be extended to maximum 50 kilometres from the border in the case of the administrative-territorial units located beyond the 30 kilometre limit. 

Enjoying the provisions of this agreement are all persons who have been legally living for three years in the border area of Romania or Ukraine. These persons have the right to cross the Romanian-Ukrainian border without a visa, based on the small border traffic permit. 

During the signing ceremony, Victor Ponta handed a document over to his Ukrainian counterpart; the document reads that Romania accepts to set up a consular office of Ukraine in Romania, most likely at Sighetu Marmatiei (northern Romania), according to official sources. 

The same sources claim that Romania also calls for the founding of a Romanian consulate in the Ukrainian area of Transcarpatia, at Solotvino.

 

Victor Ponta has arrived in Kiev after a short stopover in Chisinau from where he flew to Ukraine's capital together with Moldovan Premier Iurie Leanca. 

The head of the Romanian Cabinet was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea, Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean and Education Minister Remus Pricopie.

 

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