President-elect Pavel: Ukraine to propose date for Kyiv trip

President-elect Petr Pavel has asked the Ukrainian administration to propose a date for his planned trip to Kyiv. He made the announcement at a press conference in Prague on Monday, adding that he expected the visit to take place in the near future.

The president-elect said he met with Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk at the Munich Security Conference last week, who expressed a strong interest in his trip to Kyiv. Due to frequent visits by foreign leaders to Ukraine, Mr Pavel asked the Ukrainian side to propose a suitable date.

Mr Pavel also announced that he would make an official trip to Poland on March16 and 17, a week after his inauguration. It will be his second foreign trip after Slovakia.