Kyiv and Warsaw have agreed to speed up border checks and make it easier for Ukrainian agricultural products to be exported to the EU and third nations.

According to source, Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mykola Solsky, and Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Henryk Kowalczyk, signed a joint statement in Warsaw on Monday.

The parties assumed that Russia’s large-scale attack against Ukraine disrupted traditional agricultural export supply networks and closed Ukrainian ports, which were used to transport the majority of agricultural exports. Furthermore, 400 million people around the world may become hungry, resulting in famine and subsequent migratory crises.

As a result, the construction of reliable transit channels for agricultural exports to third countries, as well as tighter agricultural cooperation between Ukraine and Poland, is encouraged.

The Ukrainian side will coordinate commodities transportation through specified border inspection posts in Poland, while the Polish side will examine current standards for veterinary control of grain transit cargo originating from Ukraine and assure grain transit at all checkpoints along the Polish border.

Poland implemented round-the-clock operations at veterinary border control sites in the first half of May, as previously stated. In addition, the parties agreed to increase the number of veterinary inspectors at designated border inspection posts, as well as the possibility of scheduling their work 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the busiest posts, to facilitate rapid control of imported and transit goods of plant and animal origin from Ukraine.

The parties will work together to resolve rail logistical challenges for goods of plant and animal origin, as well as to ensure the smooth shipment of agricultural products.

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