17:01 07.02.2018

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's office in Uzhgorod to resume its work

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Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's office in Uzhgorod to resume its work

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a meeting on Wednesday supported the decision to resume the work of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's office in Uzhgorod, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

"We backed the resumption of the work of the Foreign Ministry's representation in Uzhgorod at a government meeting," Klimkin wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

"If someone is ready to join and help, we are always happy," he added.

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, in turn, welcomed the decision by the Ukrainian government and noted that it gives a "positive signal" to citizens living in Zakarpattia region and for neighboring countries.

"A successful and constructive decision. I thank Pavlo Klimkin for the initiative. Such actions give a positive signal to citizens of Ukraine of different descent in Zakarpattia region and our partner neighbors," she wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

According to the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry now has representative offices in Lviv and Odesa. The representative office in Odesa is entrusted with performing consular functions of the Simferopol representation.

A group of advisers of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry office in Lviv works on a permanent basis in Uzhgorod, however, previously there was a Foreign Ministry representation there. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry had its office in Donetsk, and it was also planned to open such representative offices in Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk.

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