Sergei Martynov: meeting between presidents of Belarus and Ukraine can be held in near future :: Charter'97 :: News

Issues on the forthcoming meeting between the presidents of Belarus and Ukraine were discussed today in Kiev. As BelTA has been informed in the foreign ministry of this republic, in the course of the talks between foreign minister of Belarus Sergei Martynov and his Ukrainian counterpart Boris Tarasiuk the sides agreed that in the near future (at the end of September – in early October) prime minister of Ukraine Yuri Ekhanurov will pay a visit to Belarus to prepare a meeting between two leaders Alexander Lukashenka and Viktor Yuschenko.

According to the head of the foreign political department of this republic, the concrete terms of the visit will depend on the terms of forming a new government in Ukraine.

Moreover, agreement on taking additional measures for finalizing several bilateral documents, which are planned to be signed in the course of the visit of the prime minister of Ukraine to Minsk, was reached in Kiev today as well, Sergei Martynov noted. Several documents on bilateral cooperation in the economic, political, intellectual and other spheres should be prepared for signing. These will be important agreements, for example, on taking mutual protective measures in the free trade between the two states.