Ukraine, Romania agree to set up joint checkpoints on their border – Poroshenko

The presidents of Ukraine and Romania have agreed to set up joint checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Romanian border, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

"We've made several practical steps in agreements that will make our citizens' life easier. We've agreed that significant progress will be made in local border traffic. We hope and have already tasked our ministers to simplify border crossing regime through the mechanism of local border movement," Poroshenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday after talks with his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis.