Yushchenko satisfied by cooperation with last Europe’s dictatorship

On June 12 the president of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko met with Belarusian Prime Minister Syarhei Sidorski in Kyiv.

As informed by the press-service of the Ukrainian president, “Yushchenko positively assessed the fact that agreements between him and his Belarusian counterpart Alyaksandr Lukashenka on activation of cooperation of the two countries are realized in the broad terms”.

“I am satisfied that we have good contexts for the cooperation, starting from bilateral, regional, European relations. I would encourage the government, the political forces and the parliament of Ukraine to cooperate in this context together. These relations are extremely important for us,” Yushchenko said.

He expressed a hope that during the present visit of the Belarusian Premier a number of the strategic issues which hadn’t been solved for a long time, would be worked out. “I hope that your visit would allow to settle all these questions,” Yushchenko said.

In his turn, Sidorski noted that all the agreements reached at the previous meetings of the presidents are under the most serious control, and would be implemented in the full.

“We are paying constant attention to development of our trade and economic relations. I think that we have every possibility to boost our trade turnover,” Sidorski said. He said last year the turnover of Belarus and Ukraine was $5 billion.