Ukraine, Kiev, 4 Dec / corr Trend Z.Novsvitskiy / The official meeting of the Ukraine President Viktor Yushenko and the Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov was held in Kiev.
The Ukraine President met the Tajik President in the square in front of the President's secretariat, Yushenko said.
After the meeting the Ukraine-Tajikistan talks in large began under the chairmanship of Yushenko and Rakhmonov. The parties plan to discuss the realization of agreement achieved during the Ukrainian President's official visit to Dushanbe in March and the plan of Ukraine-Tajikistan's actions for 2008-2009. Yushenko and Rakhmonov will also exchange their opinions on actual questions concerning the international and regional security.
A range of bilateral documents are to be signed during the talks.
These are agreement between the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers
and the Tajikistan government regarding cooperation in the sphere of tourism; the
intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the sphere of culture and art; the
intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the sphere of youth policy; the agreement
between the Ukraine Cabinet of Ministers and the Tajikistan government on cooperation
in the sphere of the physical training and sport; agreement between the Ukrainian
Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the Tajikistan Ministry of Agriculture on cooperation
in the sphere of the agro industrial complex; the agreement on scientific,
educational and cultural cooperation between the Kiev National University named
after Taras Shevchenko and the Tajikistan National University; the arrangement concerning
the intergovernmental programme of the long-term economical cooperation between
Ukraine and Tajikistan for 2003-2012.
The presidents will make statements and speak to correspondents after the signing ceremony.
The Tajikistan President's visit will last by 5 December.
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