OREANDA-NEWS. On January 22, 2007 Ukraine has recommended Poland to set a zone on the Ukrainian-Polish border, encircling 50 km within the framework of an agreement on small transborder movement for inhabitants, having lived there for three years, Internal Minister Yuriy Lutsenko told a press conference in Warsaw, reported the Official website www.kmu.gov.ua.

He noted that he had discussed gearing up and singing the agreement with Polish Interior Minister Grzegorz Schetina.

Lutsenko hopes for adjusting a text of the agreement during a visit of Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to Kyiv, slates for late January.

In turn, Schetina said the Poland will make public its recommendations on the agreement within a week.

In December 2007 President Viktor Yuschenko told the Gazeta Wyborcza he hopes a 100 km zone will be set on the Ukrainians-Polish border.

The Polish Foreign Ministry noted that the Schegen zone rules allows only 30 km zone within the framework of the small transborder movement, except district centers.