06 April 2004 19:34
Ukraine, Libya to cooperate in aircraft-building, space, energy, military sectors
[Presenter] Ukraine has invited Libya to take part in manufacturing the An-70 aircraft, which is Ukraine's
long-suffering joint project with Russia. More about this in a review that follows.
[Correspondent] Libya wants to invest in the Ukrainian economy. The Libyan prime minister [Secretary of the General
People's Committee Shukri Muhammad Ghanim] and his Ukrainian counterpart [Viktor Yanukovych] discussed the
prospects for setting up a joint venture in the Ukrainian agricultural sector to grow cereals.
The Libyans confirmed an agreement on [Ukraine's] access to the oil market of their country, which was reached
during [Ukrainian] President Leonid Kuchma's visit [to Libya] last year. The Libyan prime minister promised to give
priority to the Ukrainian [national oil and gas company] Naftohaz Ukrayiny in developing oil deposits.
Ukraine was also invited to take part in the privatization of a Libyan metallurgical company.
Yanukovych said that Ukraine was interested in cooperation with Libya, in particular, in aircraft-building, the
military-technical sphere, metallurgy, oil and gas extraction, the implementation of joint space projects and
tourism.
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