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Azerbaijan, Ukraine improve business, social cooperation

21 October 2016 12:18 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan, Ukraine improve business, social cooperation

By Rashid Shirinov

Baku will host the Azerbaijan-Ukraine Business Forum in November to define the priority areas in the economic cooperation.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Alexander Mishchenko announced about this on October 20 during a Ukrainian tourism forum in Baku.

He said the representatives of about 50 Ukrainian companies from different sectors of economy will attend the Azerbaijan-Ukraine business forum.

The ambassador noted that a lot of issues will be discussed at the forum, including construction of a plant for manufacturing the Ukrainian Antonov An-178 aircraft in Azerbaijan, as well as construction of a medicine factory with the support of Ukraine’s biggest pharmaceutical company Indar.

Mishchenko noted that currently Indar is negotiating with Azerbaijan and the share in the future enterprise is expected to be 50-50.

Moreover, Ukraine proposes to Azerbaijan to organize health tours to Truskavets for veterans of war and people with disabilities, the ambassador said, adding that the appropriate negotiations are being held with Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population.

Ukraine also actively cooperates with Azerbaijan in the education sphere; about 6,000 Azerbaijani students are currently studying in Ukraine, Mischenko noted.

“Currently, we start cooperation with Azerbaijan in order to ensure that students from Ukraine can get education in Azerbaijan in the energy sphere, as well as defend their dissertations.”

The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Ukraine made up $234.7 million in the first nine months of 2016. A total of $201.8 million of them were the imports from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, according to Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee.

This year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited Azerbaijan, and a number of agreements were signed during the visit.

Particularly, the Protocol of the 5th meeting of the Council of Azerbaijani and Ukrainian presidents was inked by President Aliyev and President Poroshenko.

The Protocol on cooperation in fighting customs violations in air transportation of goods between Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee and State Fiscal Service of Ukraine was signed by head of the State Customs Committee Aydin Aliyev and head of the State Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov.

The Program of cooperation in culture and art for 2016-2020 between Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism was inked by Azerbaijan’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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