Sandu to meet with Zelensky, Shmyhal, Razumkov in Kyiv on Jan 12

"On January 12, 2021, President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu will pay an official visit to Ukraine. Maia Sandu will hold an official meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov," the statement reads.

The composition of the Moldovan delegation will be announced soon.

Earlier, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President's Office, Diplomatic Adviser to the President Ihor Zhovkva announced the date for Sandu's visit to Kyiv in an article for the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

"We will start the new year by restarting bilateral relations with Moldova. President-elect Maia Sandu will pay an official visit to Ukraine on January 12. It will be her first visit since her election," he said.

Sandu said after a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Chisinau on December 10 that she was planning to visit Kyiv in January. "We reaffirmed our mutual support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of both countries. We agreed to organize a visit to Kyiv in January," Sandu wrote on her Facebook page.

Sandu also intends to visit Brussels in January. "We need to discuss a lot. Now the EU is planning how to distribute resources in the next five years, and we must clearly state what Moldova wants in its cooperation with the European Union," she said.

Sandu took office as President of Moldova on December 24, 2020, after winning the second round of the presidential election on November 15.

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