TRUSKAVETS, June 29 – Countries of the Carpathian region should strengthen cooperation for the development of infrastructure and improvement of the economic situation in the region, and Ukraine, in particular, should increase the number of checkpoints on the border with its EU neighbors, Marshal of the Polish Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament) Marek Kuchcinski said.

"At the moment, such cooperation is very feeble. We need to put ourselves to the task to increase the number of border crossing points, to improve the infrastructure between Ukraine and Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania, Ukraine and Poland," Kuchcinski said on the sidelines of the forum on local development in Truskavets, Lviv region, on June 26.