Poland and Ukraine agreed to unblock the borders between the countries.
This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Community Development of Territories and Infrastructure (Ministry of Reconstruction) after negotiations with the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland.
It is noted that the parties have agreed on the action plan necessary for this.
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— The Ministry of Reconstruction, together with the new leadership of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland, agreed on an action plan for unblocking the border, — the message says.
On December 22, a meeting was held between the Deputy Ministers of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine Sergei Derkach and Yuriy Vaskov with the new Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Poland Pavel Gancazh. The meeting was a continuation of agreements at the level of Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Alexander Kubrakov and Polish Minister of Infrastructure Dariusz Klimczak dated December 20.
Kyiv and Warsaw reached an understanding regarding compromise solutions and their implementation.
It is expected that the next stage will be negotiations at the level of the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and the protesters.
— On the third day after his appointment, the new Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Pavel Ganzazh, was welcomed in Kyiv. Together we finalized the action plan for unblocking the border. We agreed on a protocol with a unified position of the ministries. This meeting was agreed upon on Wednesday by Alexander Kubrakov and Polish Minister of Infrastructure Dariusz Klimczak, — Sergei Derkach reported on his Facebook page.
According to him, the Ukrainian side offered what Poland is ready to do in order to unblock the checkpoints. At the same time, the agreement on liberalization of freight transport — fundamental and not discussed now.
Eliminate the cause of the protests
After a meeting of representatives of the governments of Ukraine and Poland on December 20, the website of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland reported that the main topic of the meeting was the protest of Polish carriers at the border.
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It was noted that Minister Klimchak is determined to understand the situation and plans to develop a mechanism for urgent actions that will eliminate the cause of the protests in joint negotiations with Ukraine.
In addition, Warsaw conveyed to Kyiv the demands received from the protesters.
They talked about:
- Ukraine’s improvement of the mechanism for border crossing by trucks that use the Ukrainian electronic queue system,
- exception from the obligation to register empty vehicles returning from Ukraine in this system,
- exclusion from this system of EU carriers, including Polish carriers, at their designated border crossing points.
As an alternative, the principle of reciprocity can be introduced regarding the period of stay of EU vehicles in Ukraine and Ukrainian vehicles in the EU.
Border blockade
Recall that carriers from Poland began blockading the Yagodin – Dorogusk, Krakovets – Korczowa and Rava-Ruska border crossing points — Hrebenne November 6.
Already on November 22, the organization Oszukana Wieś joined the protest and blocked the Szegyni-Medyka border crossing point.
Outside the blockade, only checkpoints for empty vehicles and checkpoints for light vehicles remained.
The protesters demanded the abolition of the visa-free transport regime with Ukraine introduced by the European Union.
