Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has held a meeting with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, during which the parties agreed to cooperate ahead of the consultative referendum on the support of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU scheduled for April 6 in the Netherlands.
“Poroshenko and Rutte have coordinated steps ahead of the referendum on the association agreement in the Netherlands,” the press secretary of the Ukrainian president Sviatoslav Tseholko wrote on Twitter.
The two officials also discussed bilateral cooperation in economic and investment areas, the presidential press service reported. The president expects the EU to adopt a decision on the establishment of the visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens already in the course of the Netherlands’ presidency in the EU Council.
Poroshenko and Rutte also called for an immediate release of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko from Russian prison.
The Ukrainian president and the prime minister of the Netherlands also coordinated future actions on the inquiry into the tragedy of the MH17 flight shot down in July 2014.
The referendum on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement will be held in the Netherlands on April 6. The results of the referendum will be consultative in nature.
