The German and Polish foreign ministers met their Ukrainian counterpart Boris Tarasyuk on Monday to express their support for the country's new pro-Western government and to discuss Ukraine's possible future in the European Union.

Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rotfeld said he was confident that Ukraine would one day join the 25-nation EU but did not speculate on a date for membership.

"Our intention is not to fix a date for Ukraine's accession to the EU" but to act so that Ukrainians consider an action plan the EU and Ukraine adopted in February as "a way to move closer to the EU," he told a joint news conference.

While in Brussels a month ago, Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko called for his country to be invited to join the EU and NATO, while reaffirming the ex-Soviet republic's closeness to Russia.

Rotfeld said he would discuss with Ukrainian officials the easing of visa requirements for Ukrainians wishing to visit Poland, but that that would only be possible if border controls were stepped up.

While Poland has for the past year and a half offered free visas to Ukrainians, Ukraine on the other hand allows Polish nationals in without a visa.

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer for his part said that Germany and Poland would both support Ukraine's entry into the World Trade Organization which Kiev hopes to still do this year.

Both top diplomats met with Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko and were to later hold talks with Yuschenko before returning home.