Joint air space agreement with EU could be signed in July - Omelian

12:53, 22.04.2016 1 min read

An agreement on a joint air space between the EU and Ukraine could be signed in July 2016, Ukraine's Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelian has said.

"We have a serious issue of signing the agreement with the EU. We've got a new date from Brussels - July 2016. This is the last date I believe in, then I will draw the EU's attention to the fact that they need to keep their word," he said during the Ukrainian Infrastructure Forum in Kyiv.

As reported, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in 2015 authorized the then Minister of Infrastructure Andriy Pyvovarsky to sign an agreement on a joint air space with the EU. Prior to that, European Commission Spokesperson Jakub Adamowicz noted that the Commission supports the signing of the agreement, but did not mention a specific date when such an agreement could be signed, in particular due to the unsolved problem of Gibraltar.