"Germany is a strategic and reliable partner for Ukraine, including in the process of implementation of decentralization and energy efficiency reforms. This fall Ukrainian-German high-level group on economic cooperation apart from holding a business forum plans to open a Ukrainian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry", he said.

Hennadii Zubko also added that during the meeting the parties had paid peculiar attention to the enormous work by GIZ, which in Ukraine is the project coordinator of U-LEAD project to support the decentralization reform.