Ukraine and Romania will open new border checkpoints in the first half of 2018, Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Viorel Meleşcanu said.

"We talked about these checkpoints, two checkpoints - Dyakivtsi-Racovat and Krasnoyilsk-Vicovu de Sus, which are scheduled to open in the first half of 2018," he said at a joint press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Chernivtsi on Thursday.

At the same time, Meleșcanu added that border crossing points on the Romanian side of the border have already been arranged.