DUSHANBE, December 2, 2008, Asia-Plus — President Emomali Rahmon will start his state visit to Ukraine tomorrow, according to the Tajik MFA.
During his three-day visit in Ukraine, Rahmon is scheduled hold talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko and a number of other high-ranking Tajik officials to discuss state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between the countries, the course of implementation of bilateral agreements reached during Yushchenko’s visit to Dushanbe on March 5-7 2008 as well as international and regional issues being of mutual interest.
President’s Rahmon visit to Ukraine is expected to result in signing of a joint statement of the heads of state seven cooperation documents, including agreements on cooperation in the fields of culture, tourism, youth police, education, sports, and agriculture, as well as the plan of actions on economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Ukraine in 2009-2012.
The Tajik head of state is also planned to visit the cities of Lvov and Kharkov to discuss issues related to expansion of economic cooperation between the regions of the two countries.
In Kharkov, Emomali Rahmon will visit open joint-stock company (OJSC) Turboatom, which may become supplier of equipment for the Roghun hydroelectric power station (HPS), the MFA source said.
We will recall that Tajik-Ukrainian negotiations that were held in Dushanbe in March 2008 ended with signing of 10 bilateral cooperation documents.
Emomali Rahmon and Viktor Yushchenko inked two documents – the Joint Statement and the Plan of Tajikistan-Ukraine Actions for 2008-2009. Besides, ministries and organizations of the two countries signed eight cooperation agreements: government-to-government agreement on aerial communication; a protocol on exchange of notes on ratification of an agreement on friendship and cooperation; a protocol on exchange of notes on ratification of an agreement on transfer of convicted persons for further serving sentences; an agreement between the Tajik agency for construction and architecture and the Ukrainian ministry of regional development and construction on mutual recognition of state licenses for construction activities; a cooperation agreement between the Tajik Sughd province and the Ukrainian Dneprotetrovsk region; a memorandum between the Tajik ministry of energy and industries and the Ukrainian ministry of industrial policy; a memorandum between the Tajik ministry of energy and industries and the Ukrainian ministry of energy and fuel; and a protocol to the plan of actions on expansion of cooperation between the Tajik ministry of energy and industries and the Ukrainian ministry for industrial policy in the field of nonferrous metallurgy.
