Kyiv, Minsk to ask EU to resume funding of joint border demarcation

Ukraine and Belarus are to ask the European Union to resume a project to provide EUR 17.5 million in technical assistance for the demarcation of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has said.

"The parties have reached agreement in principle that they will jointly ask the EU to consider the resumption of the project on technical assistance for the process of the demarcation of the state border between Ukraine and Belarus, with total funding being EUR 17.5 million, which was suspended at the end of 2012," Director of the Information Policy Department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Yevhen Perebyinis said at a press briefing on Tuesday.

Ukraine and Belarus started the demarcation of the joint border on November 13.