Gryshchenko has high hopes for forward-looking cooperation with Turkey

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko has expressed high hopes for deepening bilateral cooperation with Turkey, saying that a basis for a very fruitful and forward-looking cooperation between the two nations already exists.” In a few months, we will have a meeting here in Turkey of two foreign ministers in preparation for the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council which would be an extremely important development. We took it very seriously; there are negotiations on the free trade agreement and on the liberalization of the visa regime, all the things that will make the lives of ordinary Ukrainians and Turks much easier via simplifying the procedures and enabling them to visit both countries,” Gryshchenko said in an exclusive interview with Today's Zaman on Tuesday in Istanbul.” Already millions of Ukrainians come to spend their summer vacations in Turkey. So, in that particular respect, tourism is also every important area in our mutual effort to promote better understanding and friendship between the two peoples,” Gryshchenko underlined.”