00:01Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched a new regional cooperation framework with seven neighboring countries on Friday in an effort to
00:10stoke regional investment.
00:12The initiative, dubbed the Carpathian 8 or C-8, brings together Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria
00:21and Hungary, with the European Union also taking part.
00:24Zelenskyy identified transport and logistics, military mobility, critical minerals and trade and investment as priority areas of cooperation.
00:34The Carpathian macro-region is a natural European gateway for routes coming from the South Caucasus and Asia through the
00:43Black Sea.
00:45And these routes are active today and they will remain active in the future.
00:49According to summit organizers, some 90 joint projects requiring an estimated 9.4 billion euros in investment were pitched to
00:59investors during the summit.
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