Ukraine and Qatar express commitment to deepen cooperation in all areas, a meeting of the Prime Minister with Advisor to the Emir of Qatar Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari
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Prime
Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman
on Friday met with Advisor to the Emir of Qatar for Cultural Affairs Dr. Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari.
The sides
discussed practical measures of deepening cooperation between Ukraine and Qatar
in various fields.
In
particular, the Head of Government stressed that the bilateral trade turnover between
the states does not match the potential of the countries and has to enhance.
Ukraine in
the near future is expecting a delegation of business representatives from
Qatar, and planning to discuss in particular the issues of expansion of
investment opportunities.
During the
meeting the parties also talked over the exchange of visits of Prime Ministers
of the two countries aimed to enhance partnership between Ukraine and Qatar in
trade, economic and financial spheres.
The Prime
Minister thanked Qatar for its support in the UN framework during consideration
of the Ukrainian issue, in particular a resolution "Territorial Integrity
of Ukraine" adopted by the UN General Assembly on 27 March 2014, as well
as "The Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and
the city of Sevastopol" adopted on 15 November 2016.
Focusing on
cooperation between the two countries in the humanitarian sphere, in particular
in the framework of UNESCO, the Ukrainian side expressed its readiness to
consider the candidacy of the Qatari side to the post of the UNESCO Director-General.
"Ukraine is responsibly considering Your
candidacy given the high level of partnership relations between our
countries", said Volodymyr Groysman.