Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during their meeting in Jerusalem. (Reuters pic)JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko announced Monday the two countries had signed a free trade agreement.
“Today a free trade agreement was signed and we have been working on it for many years,” Netanyahu told a joint news conference in Jerusalem.
Poroshenko hailed the signing as a “historic day”.
Earlier, the Ukranian president visited Yad Vachem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, and met with his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin.
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