Odesa region, June 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko has said he hopes that a conflict over a land plot near the village of Palanca will be settled after local elections in Moldova.
"We put this issue rather clearly… We insist on the fulfillment of three obligations by the Moldovan side that should have been fulfilled as far back as 10 year ago," Hryschenko said following his visit to the Reni port on Friday.
He added that this matter would be the subject for serious talks with the Moldovan side.
"Currently they will have local elections and we hope that there will be enough domestic stability and it will allow us to take decisions that, in fact have to be taken, as these are legally secured obligations between the two countries," Hryschenko said.
As reported, on April 22, Hryschenko said he had plans to demand that Moldova transfer to Ukraine a land plot in the village of Palanca near the Odesa-Reni motorway.
In compliance with a border agreement dated 1999, Moldova gave Ukraine a 7.7-kilometer-long segment of the Odesa-Reni motorway, but continued owning the territory adjacent to the road in the village of Palanca.
