17:48 20.08.2018

Ukrainian president's rep calls for legalization of passenger transportation to administrative border with occupied Crimea

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Ukrainian president's rep calls for legalization of passenger transportation to administrative border with occupied Crimea

The Ukrainian president's permanent representation in Crimea supports the selection on a competitive basis of a company for legal passenger transportation to the administrative border of Kherson region and the Crimean peninsula, the president's first deputy representative in Crimea, Izet Gdanov, has said.

"Our citizens in Crimea pay attention to the absence of legal passenger transportation with operating entry and exit checkpoints. I want to remind you that there are three of them - Kalanchak, Chonhar, Chaplynka. So far people don't have documents there. So far the issue of legal transportation is not being decided," Gdanov said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.

According to him, the issue of transportation lies in the competence of district and regional state administrations, as well as the State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety.

Gdanov noted that there is a transport hub in the village of Novooleksiyivka and the president's permanent representation had repeatedly drawn attention to the need to hold a tender and appoint a transport carrier according to Ukrainian legislation.

"We hope that this issue will be resolved in the near future," he said.

At the same time, he said that it would be possible to liquidate illegal carriers after the legal ones appear.

"The issue of illegal transportation, illegal and semi-legal business near the administrative board is gaining momentum. We cannot state the improvement of the situation. Even in some localities, for example, transportation from the Kalanchak checkpoint, the situation there has only worsened," the president's permanent representative in Crimea, Borys Babin, said.

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