KYIV, June 20 – Ukraine will seek to expand economic cooperation and trade with countries of the African Union, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.

It was during my term that the first Strategy for the Development of Ukraine's Relations with African States was approved. Dialogue with all countries of the continent will be intensified. The Special Representative of Ukraine for African Affairs will also start working in the near future," Zelensky said, speaking via video link at a meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union on Monday.