Officials claim readiness for for Euro 2012
WARSAW, May 18 (Xinhua) — Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Waldemar Pawlak and his counterpart in Ukraine, Borys Kolesnikov declared on Friday the two states are 100 percent ready for the Euro 2012 football championships.
Pawlak and Kolesnikov attended a meeting of the Polish- Ukrainian inter-governmental commission for economic cooperation in Kyiv.
“Euro 2012 will be a stimulus for strengthening inter-personal and economic contacts while infrastructure built for the event will serve us for many years to come,” the Polish Prime Minister told at a news conference.
Kolesnikov thanked “Polish colleagues for very effective cooperation in joint preparations for Euro 2012” in recent years.
The politicians assured they would continue working for closer cooperation between their countries in tourism and transport, among others.
During the meeting of the inter-governmental commission the Polish and Ukrainian delegations discussed cooperation in trade, joint investments and migration for work.
Pawlak noted that in 2011 trade between the two countries rose by 30 percent, and added that in the first quarter of 2012 its growth also reached 30 percent.
The two deputy PMs said that Polish investments in Ukraine at the end of 2011 topped 875 million US dollars and Ukrainian investments in Poland stood at 48.2 million US dollars though, according to experts of the infrastructure ministry, led by Kolesinkov, their value may even reach 1.5 billion dollars.
The sides discussed energy issues, including the participation of Ukrainian experts in the construction of a nuclear plant in Poland, and the “unused potential of Euro-Asian crude oil transport, that is the planned Odessa-Brody-Plock pipeline.
During Pawlak’s visit to Ukraine an accord on social protection and a memorandum on cooperation between Poland’s BGK bank and Ukrainian Ukreksimbank were signed.
The 16-nation Euro 2012 soccer championships, slated for June 8- July 1, 2012, will take place in four Polish cities of Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Poznan as well as four Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk and Kharkov.
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