Ukraine and Italy have signed an Intergovernmental Agreement on Police Cooperation and will soon extend the Agreement on recognition and exchange of driver's licenses
Today, June 10, in Kyiv, the Minister of the Interior, the Co-Chairman of the Ukrainian-Italian Intergovernmental Council for Economic, Financial and Industrial Cooperation Arsen Avakov and his visa Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic Luigi Di Maio signed the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Police cooperation. The document will allow countries to cooperate more effectively in law enforcement, in particular to exchange operational information directly.
Also within the framework of the meeting was signed a protocol of intent between the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and Cela Industry to purchase specialized rescue equipment — fire lifts, 30% of their production will be concentrated in Ukraine.
Arsen Avakov noted that in addition, all necessary procedures for the extension of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Mutual Recognition and Exchange of National Driver's License have been completed. This will allow thousands of our compatriots not to retake the driving exam in Italy. Active negotiations with Italian companies on cooperation in infrastructure and security projects on the construction of new equipment are ongoing, subject to partial localization of its production in Ukraine and active financial lending by the State Export and Credit Agency of Italy SACE and corresponding state guarantees of the Ukrainian government.
“Thank you for visiting. It turned out to be very fruitful - we concluded an Agreement on police cooperation, we conclude the Agreement on mutual recognition and exchange of driver's licenses, we are talking about fire lifts for the needs of the State Emergency Service and the project for the construction of high-speed railway tracks. We are already closer to Europe,” Arsen Avakov said.
In turn, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic Luigi Di Maio thanked for fruitful bilateral cooperation for the development of Ukrainian-Italian relations.
“Today we signed an important agreement on police cooperation. A new intergovernmental agreement on the mutual recognition and exchange of driver's licenses is underway, which will extend the validity of the previous document from 2015. Therefore, I invite you, Minister, to Rome to sign the relevant document,” he said.
Luigi Di Maio noted that the Ukrainian-Italian Intergovernmental Council on Economic, Financial and Industrial Cooperation will continue to work more fruitfully. Arsen Avakov stressed that negotiations are ongoing on a promising project of construction in Ukraine together with Italian partners of new high-speed railway tracks.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
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Mykola Anatskyi
