Zelensky calls on Lithuanian businessmen to invest in Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky expects growth in trade turnover with Lithuania and calls on Lithuanian business to invest in Ukraine.

He said this at the fifth Ukrainian-Lithuanian Economic Forum in Vilnius on Wednesday, the president’s press service reported.

Zelensky stressed that the Lithuanian entrepreneurs' considerable experience in cooperation with leading European companies and successful adaptation to European standards would allow to jointly increase profitable economic relations and enter the markets of other countries.

“We expect the volume of our bilateral trade in goods and services to exceed last year's record. As my colleague said, USD 2 billion will be better,” the president said.

Zelensky urged Lithuanian business to invest in Ukraine. “I want to address the representatives of Lithuanian companies present in this hall: today Ukraine is a good place for investment. It is a pleasure that Lithuanian companies remain on the Ukrainian market and continue to develop their investment projects,” he stressed.

The president called it symbolic that on November 27, the second Lithuanian solar power plant was opened in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

“Invest in Ukraine! We hope that the forum will result in new ideas and mutually beneficial ties between enterprises, companies and individual regions of Ukraine and Lithuania,” the head of state concluded.

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