Within the framework
of the official visit to the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya President
Yushchenko held a meeting with Leader of this country Muammar al-Gaddafi. The
meeting was held in Marquee of the Leader and Guide of the Libyan Revolution on
the territory of his residency. The President’s press office reports.
“We hold
warm and friendly negotiations with the Libyan leader,” Yushchenko said during
the meeting with Ukrainian community,
which was held after the meeting with Muammar al-Gaddafi.
“I’m sure that
we have a unique chance for cooperation, if we have right attitude to our
mutual possibilities,” President Yushchenko said.
During the
meeting the sides discussed prospects for Ukrainian-Libyan cooperation in many
fields including trade, economic, energy, agriculture, transport, etc. President
Yushchenko also pointed to perceptiveness of cooperation in military field as
well as space exploration and aviation.
Separate
attention was paid to humanitarian cooperation such as increasing a number of Libyan
students, who learn in Ukrainian institutes. Besides President Yushchenko
touched upon a subject of recognizing the Great Famine 1932-1933 the genocide
against Ukrainians by the Libyan side.
Photos are taken from the President's press office.
