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Ukrainian and Belarusian Presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Alexander Lukashenko will visit one of the flu-affected regions of Ukraine on Friday.

Yushchenko said this at a joint press conference with Lukashenko in Kyiv on Thursday.

He also said that the Belarusian president had not arrived in Ukraine "empty-handed."