Ukraine should become a participant in the Trimorje project, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday at the project's summit, speaking via video link.
"Ukraine should be a participant in the Trimorje initiative. It is not right that our power has been left out of this beautiful initiative," he said.
Zelensky suggested "strengthening the interpretation of cooperation in the framework of the "Trimorje," emphasizing the importance of logistics. "It is the Trimorje states that are our connection to the free world . The supply of weapons for Ukraine, fuel supply, transport flows, green corridors for the export of Ukrainian food, migration of people - all this works through the territory of the states-participants of this initiative," the president said.
Speaking of cooperation in the field of energy, Zelensky reminded that Ukraine has one of the largest gas storage facilities in the region. "Using the possibilities of interconnectors Poland - Slovakia, Poland - Ukraine, we can meet the needs of all countries of the "Trimorje. Our electricity exports can become our contribution to the energy balance of your countries. And help you to become independent from Russian energy pressure," Zelensky stressed.
According to him, "we must do everything to make the trans-European corridor "Via Carpathia" work at 100 percent, uniting Northern and Southern Europe. Zelensky noted that Ukraine can play the role of one of the logistics centers. "We can join Via Carpathia now," he said.
"We should work on the expansion of border crossing points in Ukraine, we can provide support for many infrastructure projects in the field of digitalization , strengthen our regional digital connections," the president said.
He also urged the members of the project to participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine as "the biggest project of our generation".
"The Three Seas Initiative (ITM), also known as the Baltic-Adriato-Black Sea Initiative (BACI) or the Trimorje, is an association of twelve European Union member states located in Central and Eastern Europe with access to the Adriatic Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.
