Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after the signing of an agreement in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, on January 21, 2019 (JIM HOLLANDER)

Jerusalem (AFP) – 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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