ODESA, MAY 22th, 2014, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE – Chairman of the Odesa Regional State Administration Igor Palitsa and Chairman of the Odesa Regional Council Mykola Tyndyuk have met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Ukraine Cornel Ionescu, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The press service of the Odesa Regional Council informed today, 22 May.

According to the press service, during a recent joint meeting of the leadership of Odesa region and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Ukraine Cornel Ionescu the next issues were discussed: the signing of the agreement on small border traffic between Ukraine and Romania, joint participation in projects of international technical assistance, cooperation in the transport sector, the intensification of cooperation between Odesa universities and universities of Iasi and Constanta.

“Mr Ionescu has considerable diplomatic experience in Ukraine, Russia and Moldova. His visit to Odesa was timed to the Day of Europe, and, of course, assumed certain official meetings, especially with the governor and the chairman of Odesa Regional Council. Number of experts attended on both sides (in particular with the Romanian Consul General of Romania in Odesa Emil Rapcha),” the press service added.

During the conversation Cornel Ionescu noted the need to accelerate bilateral internal procedures of ratification of the Agreement on local border traffic between Ukraine and Romania. This document was initialed at the beginning of April this year and provides visa-free movement of residents of border regions of our countries.

They also discussed cooperation in the transport sector: opening direct airline Kyiv-Bucharest, prospects for maritime transport between the ports of Odesa and Constanta and ferry construction Orlivka — Isakcha.