13 May 2009, 20:06
Volodymyr Lytvyn, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deems that if we had not lost the target markets in Former Soviet Union Countries, the influence of the world economic crises would not have been so painful
Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada o Ukraine on the 13th of May 2009 in the course of the visit to Russian Federation (Saint-Petersburg city) has met the Chairman of the Council of the Republic National Meeting of the Byelorussia Republic, Borys Batura.
The Leaders of the Parliaments of Ukraine and Byelorussia stressed on the readiness of "use the example of the Presidents of the both countries in the intensity of communication".
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the delegation of the Byelorussia in Parliament in Kyiv and organize the visit of the Ukrainian delegation to Minsk. According to him, "the parliament of two countries should transfer from episodic meetings to the system work concerning solving economical and humanitarian problems". V. Lytvyn deems that ‘both Parliaments have the opportunity to coordinate the positions in interparliamentary organizations, in Interparliamentary Assembly CIS as well".
Discussing the issue on the economic cooperation between Ukraine and Byelorussia, V, Lytvyn stressed that during the current years the commodity circulation increased. "Of course there are objective reasons for it. Still the new possibilities for the cooperation should be found", - Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine declared.
Chairman of the Council of the Republic National Meeting of the Byelorussia Republic, Borys Batura announced that 80% of commodity circulation between countries is in the frontier zone and agreed that "the dialogue regarding the strengthening of the cooperation should be held and star the opportunities of the visa free border crossing".
According to V. Lytvyn "economic cooperation with CIS countries should be one of the most important priorities of Ukrainian external policy". "If we had not lost the target markets in Former Soviet Union Countries, the influence of the world economic crises would not have been so painful as 60% of economic increase is according to the positive market conjecture", - he stressed".