Ukraine and Sweden have agreed to start negotiations on concluding a bilateral agreement on security guarantees in the development of the Vilnius Declaration of the G7, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said after a telephone conversation with his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billstrom.

“During our call, Tobias Billstrom and I agreed to begin talks on a bilateral Ukrainian-Swedish agreement on security guarantees following G7 Vilnius Declaration. We also discussed Ukraine’s European integration. Working together on the path to opening Ukraine’s EU accession talks this year,” Kuleba said on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.