The first visit abroad in the status of the authorised President of Ukraine Viktor Janukovich is going to pay to Brussels on the 1st of March.
“By now an arrangement has been reached that V. Janukovich is going to meet with the President of the EU Herman van Rompuy, the Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and the Chairman of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek”, - said one of the collocutors of the Ukrainian paper “Komersant-Ukraina”.
Visit of V. Janukovich to Moscow will follow the visit to Brussels – in the first decade of March. The respective arrangement was reached on 20 February during the conversation between Viktor Janukovich and the President of the RF Dmitrij Medvedev over the phone. Diplomatic circles noted that exact date of the visit has not yet been agreed.
Material has been prepared by the Centre of Geopolitical Studies with reference to the article from «ИА Regnum» of 23 02 2010
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