Ukraine signs visa-free agreements with Mongolia, Argentina

Ukraine has signed the visa-free agreements with Mongolia and Argentina, 112 International reported as Prime Minister of the country Oleksiy Honcharuk saying on Telegram, .

“The government approved two protocols between the government of Ukraine and governments of Mongolia and Argentina, which provides the increase of term of visa-free stay of citizens of Ukraine in the territory of two countries twice,” Honcharuk wrote.

Thus, the Ukrainians will be able to travel without a visa for 90 days for 180 days.

Earlier, Ukraine signed visa-free agreements with Ecuador and Colombia.

As we reported, Foreign Ministry of Ukraine works with Mexico, Grenada, China and overseas departments of France on the provision of the visa-free regime to Ukraine.

On December 22, 2019, a visa-free regime between Ukraine and Northern Macedonia came into force.The agreement provides for the simplification of travel of citizens of Northern Macedonia and Ukraine without visa requirements, provided that the duration of their stay does not exceed ninety days for each period of one hundred and eighty days.

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Ukraine is not Demanding Compensation from Mongolia for the Sacking of Kyiv in 1240

The press attache of the Mongolian embassy in the Russian Federation Lhagvasuren Namsrai announced that the Ukrainian parliament has asked the Mongolian legislature to compensate Ukraine for the murder of Ukrainians by Batu Khan and his forces during the sacking of Kyiv in 1240 by the Golden Horde. Mr. Namsrai made this announcement during a radio program aired on March 1 on the Russian station Vesti FM.

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Several Russian sits quickly republished this information, among them Vesti.Ru, Izvestia, Regnum, Narodnyi Korrespondent,  Oplot, Voyennoye Oborzrenye and others.

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There is no information about such a request anywhere on the Ukrainian parliament’s website, a thorough search of the parliament site as well as several Google searches failed to turn up any such claim. Ukraine’s legislation data base also did not yield any results, the last law in which Mongolia was mentioned is dated 2012.

StopFake exposed the original fake story about the Ukrainian parliament’s alleged request to the Mongolian legislature which appeared in May 2015 on the obscure Russkaya Narodnaya Linia web site. At that time several Russian sites eagerly reposted this story, among them Rossia 24 and the Russian military’s web site Zvezda.

The Ukrainian embassy in Mongolia could not confirm any request on the part of the Ukrainian parliament to their Mongol legislative colleagues. Embassy Deputy Secretary Olena Shevchenko told StopFake that the Embassy had no official information concerning this issue.

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The Mongolian press attache in a comment to the RIA Novosti news agency renounced his previous claim about the compensation request, saying that he was simply quoting media references on this topic.

Source:http://www.stopfake.org/

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Mongolia Wants To Step Up Cooperation With Ukraine In Economy, Education, Culture, And Defense Sector

Mongolia wants to step up the cooperation with Ukraine in economy, education, culture, and the defense sector.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press office of President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine.

According to the statement, President Viktor Yanukovych met with Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj in Davos (Switzerland).

"Our relations must accelerate... There are a number of sectors where we can cooperate," said the President of Mongolia.

According to him, the cooperation in economy, education, culture and the defense sector is the most promising.

He said thousands of students from Mongolia, including the President, studied in Ukraine.

"We can be a good bridge between our countries," he said.

The President said Mongolia can become a reliable partner for Ukraine.

"Mongolia can become a very reliable partner of yours in our part of the world," he said.

President Viktor Yanukovych, for his part, also expressed himself for acceleration of the Ukraine - Mongolia relations.

"The time is ripe for stepping up the relations between Ukraine and Mongolia, and so let us arrange a date for convening a meeting of the intergovernmental commission," said the President of Ukraine.

Yanukovych noted that the place of the meeting of the intergovernmental commission should be arranged at present also. According to Yanukovych, the presidents should provide the effective work of the intergovernmental commission and to define most promising directions of the cooperation.

Yanukovych called for the commodity turnover between the two countries to be expanded essentially.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Ukraine in January 2010 aligned itself with a declaration of the European Union to welcome the introduction of moratorium on death penalty in Mongolia.

In 2006, the Defense Ministry of Ukraine and the Defense Ministry of Mongolia signed a cooperation agreement for 2007.

Source:Ukrainian News Agency

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