President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has arrived in Kazakhstan on the
one-day official visit.
Upon arrival, he had a brief
conversation with Kazakh officials, who greeted him at the airport, then
they left for the Palace of Peace and Accord.
At the beginning of his tete-a-tete meeting with the President of
Ukraine, Nursultan Nazarbayev congratulated Viktor Yanukovych on his
victory in presidential elections.
"I know you assumed the
office of President in difficult times. Everything that could be
destroyed, was destroyed in fact", said the Kazakh President.
From his part Viktor Yanukovych said that former authorities "confused
democracy with chaos. Not only for me, but for all Ukrainian people it
was a tragic page in history. The system of state government is
unbalanced, economy is in recession ... But we are not in panic".
Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested that Ukraine should restore normal
relations with its partners and reach a new level of trade and economic
cooperation. "We will be working on specific interaction, and fill our
cooperation with new content and projects", said the Kazakh President.
Viktor Yanukovych said: "Before your visit to Ukraine it would be
good if our Governments, business representatives and managers prepared
specific proposals to enhance interaction, enriching our cooperation
with specific content and projects”.
"What you do in
Kazakhstan is a great example for the Ukrainians. I mean the program of
development of Kazakhstan until 2020. We can adopt a positive experience
and, of course, share it”, said President Yanukovych.
The
Kazakh President noted that he would tell his Ukrainian colleague about
this program in more detail. He also said he is familiar with the
intentions of the President of Ukraine to develop his own development
plan for Ukraine until 2020 involving the best national and foreign
specialists.
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