Speaker Parubiy to take part in Conference of Parliamentary Cooperation of Central and Eastern Europe on Oct 22

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy will visit Poland on October 21-22 to participate in the Conference on Parliamentary Cooperation in the Central and Eastern European Region and will inspect the border checkpoints between Ukraine and Poland.

He told this in an interview with Rada TV channel, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The trip will begin on Saturday with a meeting of the speakers of the Central and Eastern Europe in Poland. There will be a number of speakers, and we have such traditional meetings where we discuss a number of projects and trends that are taking place in our parliaments," he noted.

After that, the speaker plans to inspect the places of the construction of new checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border and the reconstruction of existing ones.

As reported earlier, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada noted that four new checkpoints would be open in 2018.

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