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Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister, Lazar Comanescu, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Pavlo Klimkin, reiterated on Saturday during a joint press conference in Sighetu Marmatiei the need to strengthen the bilateral relations as well as Romania's support granted to the neighbour state on its path towards the EU.
"We had a very good opinion exchange on the manner in which our bilateral relations evolve. We agreed to continue to work together on strengthening the relations between Romania and Ukraine. We have discussed in this framework about consolidating the transborder cooperation, so we may give the possibility to our citizens on both Tisa River banks to be able to interact of a closer manner. We have obviously discussed about the possibility of developing our economic cooperation, but also about the topical issues on the European agenda, and I want to emphasise here the importance which we grant to a strong support between the EU and Ukraine, a strong closeness to the EU," Lazar Comanescu said.
Comanescu reiterated Romania's support for the effort of solving the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine.
In his turn, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister appreciated Romania's support and mentioned that the meeting at Sighetu Marmatiei has been more than symbolical.
At the same time Klimkin praised the support granted to his country in the European context, and the fact that the Maramures County administration received children from the areas affected by war in recreation camps.
The two ministers participated on Saturday in Sighetu Marmatiei in the unveiling of the bust devoted to Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevcenko in the park in front of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the city.
Local administration representatives, Maramures County Prefect Sebastian Luput, representatives of the Ukrainian communities of Maramures also attended the event.
