Dutch minister leads trade mission to Ukraine ahead of referendum on Association Agreement

The Netherlands will hold a referendum on Ukraine-EU Association Agreement on April 6 / Photo from UNIAN

"With this visit we hope to pave the way for closing new contracts and expanding existing ones,” says Ploumen, according to Ukraine Today.

“That is why the Association Agreement is of such importance: it is about the economic and political reforms and taking away obstacles, to make trade flow easier," the official said.

Read also#DutchInUA: "People should understand, ‘No-vote' would mean support for Putin"The trade mission comes ahead of an April 6 referendum in the Netherlands on Ukraine's Association Agreement with the EU.

Ploumen will also tour a number of Dutch enterprises in the agricultural sector and meet Ukraine's Agriculture Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko. She is also set to meet Ukraine's Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abramovicius.