Ukrainian and Russian MPs are planning to intensify cross-border cooperation and jointly mark a number of important events for the two countries.
The lawmakers declared such an intention at a joint meeting between
the parliamentary group of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on
inter-parliamentary relations with Russia and the parliamentary group of
the Russian State Duma on relations with the Ukrainian parliament in
Odesa on Saturday.
In particular, Party of Regions MP Serhiy Hrynevetsky noted that the
intensification of inter-regional and cross-border cooperation is
important when emergency services need to interact and manmade problems
need to be resolved.
In addition, MPs expressed their desire to jointly celebrate the
1,025th anniversary of the Christianization of Kyiv Rus, the 200th
birthday of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, the 70th anniversary of the
victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), as well as the 25th
anniversary of the end of the war in Afghanistan.
The participants in the meeting also expressed their intention to
discuss a number of infrastructure projects, including the construction
of a ring road around the Black Sea, the construction of highways
between Moscow and Kharkiv, and the construction of a bridge in the
Kerch Strait.
