Azeri President to visit Ukraine
BAKU – Azeri President Ilham Aliyev plans to pay an official visit to Ukraine this fall, Ukrainian News reports quoting the press service of the country's Foreign Ministry.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko, who made a trip to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and China in July, told President Viktor Yanukovich that the interest of the eastern partners in Ukraine has increased.
Kazakhstan president is also expected to visit Ukraine in autumn.
During his last official visit to Azerbaijan on July 18, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister agreed with his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov that President Aliyev’s upcoming visit to Kiev should result in launching bilateral economic projects.
The second meeting of the council of the Ukrainian and Azeri presidents will be held during the presidential visit. Its agenda will be finalized during the eighth meeting of the joint Ukraine-Azerbaijan inter-governmental commission for economic cooperation due in Kyiv by the end of September - early October.
Ukraine seeks Azeri gas imports through the Georgian seaport of Kulevi.
The memorandum on construction of a gas terminal in Kulevi was signed by Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania in April.
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