11 May 2017 11:59

Poroshenko to visit Strasbourg on May 17 for signing Ukraine-EU visa-free travel act

KYIV. May 11 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will visit Strasbourg on May 17 for signing the Ukraine-EU visa-free travel act.

"As we have agreed with our European friends, the relevant legislative act will be signed at a ceremony in Strasbourg on May 17. Perhaps this would be one of my most important visits paid in the presidential capacity in the past three years," Poroshenko said in his address on the occasion of the Council of the European Union's decision to grant visa-free travel to Ukraine.