Yanukovych making trip to New York, his second presidential visit to U.S
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) shakes hands with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Kyiv on July 2. The door to NATO membership remains open for Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Kyiv, after its parliament abandoned the previous administration’s bid to join the alliance. (Andriy Mosienko)
President Viktor Yanukovych will travel to the United States and deliver the first keynote speech at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, according to the Foreign Ministry.
Yanukovych is expected to talk about Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy, said Oleksandr Dikusarov, the foreign ministry’s spokesperson.
Yanukovych’s United Nations speech will come a day after the international organization’s three-day summit on achieving the 2015 Millennium Development goals, a global effort to eradicate world poverty.
A Ukrainian delegation will present an analytical report titled, “Millennium Development Targets. Ukraine 2010,” at the U.N.-sponsored summit on Sept. 20-22. Yanukovych plans to join 117 heads of state at the summit.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, right, and U.S. President Barack Obama talk during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on April 13, when Yanukovych agreed to surrender the nation’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the kind used in making nuclear weapons. (Andrei Mossienko)
Ukraine recognized the Millennium Development goals in 2000 together with 189 other countries, with a goal towards achieving target goals by 2015.
Those include: eradication of poverty and hunger, universal primary education, promoting gender quality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development.
