RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SIGN RANGE OF JOINT STATEMENTS
ARMENPRESS
MAY 18, 2010
KIEV
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovich signed a range of bilateral documents Monday at the end
of their talks in Kiev, Armenpress reports citing Itar-Tass.
In part, the two heads of state signed joint statements on European
security, on settling the conflict around Moldova’s much-troubled
Dniester region, and on security measures in the Black Sea littoral
area.
Medvedev and Yanukovich endorsed the final protocol of the third
session of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission.
In the presence of both presidents, Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov of
Russia and Konstantin Grishchenko signed an agreement on demarcation
of the Russian-Ukrainian state border.
The director of Russian Space Agency /Roskosmos/, Anatoly Perminov,
and the director general of the Ukrainian national space agency,
Yuri Alexeyev, signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation
in the use and development of Russia’s global navigation satellite
system GLONASS.
The Ministers of Education, Andrei Fursenko and Dmitry Tabachnik,
signed an agreement between the two ministries on priority measures
in cooperation in the field of education and science for the period
of 2010 through to 2012.
Russian Minister of Culture, Alexander Avdeyev, and the Ukrainian
Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mikhail Kulinyak, put their signatures
under a program of cooperation for the years 2010 through to 2014.
The Russian bank VTB and Ukreximbank signed an agreement on inter-bank
cooperation. The document carries the signatures of the two banks’
CEO’s, Andrei Kostin and Nikolai Udovichenko.