Ukraine and Poland sign memorandum on building pipeline to export vegetable oils to Gdansk

MOSCOW. Sept 7 (Interfax) - Poland and Ukraine will soon form a group which will work out technical parameters and terms for the construction of a pipeline to export vegetable oils from Ukraine to the Gdansk port in Poland and two transloading terminals, Ukrainian media said on Wednesday.

A memorandum to this effect was signed on September 7 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Infrastructure Ministry of Poland and Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food and Infrastructure Ministry, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said on its website.

"We have actively been working for the past six months to increase the export of domestic agricultural products via our shared border crossings with Poland. We have also been working to reduce the queues on the Ukrainian-Polish border," Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solskiy was quoted as saying by his ministry.

Some details of the aforementioned memorandum were unveiled by the Polish media outlet wnp.pl even before it was signed. According to wnp.pl, the memorandum will be signed for three years and may be automatically extended for another three years. The document may also be terminated, but no later than six months before the expiry of the next period.

The memorandum allows the sides to establish a working group, which will present various options for the pipelines' location, including their possible routes, wnp.pl said. This working group will also provide information about the project's possible tentative technical parameters, cost and implementation terms.