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Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn said on Tuesday he was satisfied with the results of talks he held in Minsk.

The Ukrainian speaker said this after a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Lytvyn said that he and Lukashenko discussed a wide range of issues in interstate relations, in particular "the place of our states in today's complicated, hard and cruel world."

"We have the opportunities… to achieve a result, which will be advantageous both to Ukraine and Belarus," he said.

According to Lytvyn, they also discussed the guidelines for cooperation between Ukraine and Belarus in order to overcome the financial and economic crisis, in particular, issues related to economic cooperation, the use of transit possibilities in the energy sector, and relations in humanitarian field.

"This helps us understand each other better," the speaker said.

Lytvyn said that Ukraine and Belarus should deepen and develop their interparliamentary ties.