A tete-e-tete meeting of President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is taking place in Ashgabat.
The meeting will be followed by extended Turkmen-Ukrainian talks
chaired by the two presidents, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent
reported.
The Ukrainian delegation includes Foreign Affairs Minister Leonid
Kozhara, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boiko, Defense Minister Pavlo
Lebedev, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky, Education
and Science, Youth and Sports Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk.
Yanukovych is on a state visit to Turkmenistan on February 12-14.
