KIEV, Dec. 12 - Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite hopes that the citizens of Ukraine will be able to travel to EU countries without visas in 2017.

"We will try to help your country to find a solution for a visa-free regime. I hope that this decision will be implemented in the next year, and the Ukrainians will be able to travel freely in Europe," she said during a joint briefing with President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Monday.