18 August 2014, 11:54
On Monday Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov met with the leadership of JSC "Klaipedos Nafta".
During the meeting, the Chairperson of the Ukrainian Parliament got acquainted with Lithuania's experience in building a liquefied natural gas terminal in record-breaking time.
In words of Oleksandr Turchynov, experience in building such terminal in three years "is extremely important for Ukraine". "We will implement this experience in our country in order to make Ukraine free from "Gazprom" blackmail", he stressed.
As it was informed earlier, Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov will participate in the Conference of Parliamentary Speakers of the Nordic and Baltic Countries on August 17-19 (Palanga, the Republic of Lithuania).
The Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada will make a speech within the framework of discussion "Eastern Partnership of the European Union after Vilnius, before Riga".
The Leader of Ukrainian Parliament will meet with President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Loreta Grauziniene, Speaker of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia Solvita Aboltina, and with the Chairperson of the Riksdag of the Kingdom of Sweden Per Westerberg.
Oleksandr Turchynov will participate in a joint press conference of Speakers of NB-8 member-states for Lithuanian mass media, and will lay flowers to Taras Shevchenko monument in Vilnius.