Yuschenko described relations of two countries as good-neighborly.
Chisinau, October 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko are to discuss a date for a bilateral meeting in the near-term outlook.
“We will agree on when we are to meet in a bilateral format in the near future,” Lukashenko said at the beginning of his meeting with the Ukrainian counterpart in Chisinau on Friday.
Yuschenko, in turn, said that Ukraine had come up with a package of proposals at the meeting with Lukashenko on Friday.
Yuschenko expressed confidence that the sides would hammer out “mutually acceptable solutions, which would give a nudge to the bilateral relations, including the economic ones.” Yuschenko also described the relations of the two countries as good-neighborly.
The Belarusian president, in turn, said he shares the opinion aired by Yuschenko at a meeting of the CIS heads of state that the CIS member countries would become stronger after overcoming the crisis.