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Moscow – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to visit Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant during his state visit to Ukraine.

“Vladimir Vladimirovich, I would like to make a proposal, it’s time for a state visit to Russia and Ukraine, there have been no such visits since 1996, I believe. If the visit will take place, you, as an active participant in this construction project (funding of the new safe confinement at Chornobyl NPP) and our neighbor, who was also seriously affected (by the Chornobyl disaster)… are invited to come,” Yanukovych said adding that Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was also invited to visit the nuclear power plant.

During the CIS informal summit in Moscow on Tuesday, May 15 the Ukrainian president said what Ukraine had done to raise money for Chornobyl Shelter Fund.

He recalled the assembly of a new containment over the 4th power unit of Chornobyl NPP started on April 26 2012.