Co-presided
by President Victor Yushchenko of Ukraine
and President Valdas Adamkus of the Republic
of Lithuania the second Session
of the Council of Lithuanian and Ukrainian presidents took place in Vilnius.
The participants
discussed a range of questions in bilateral relations between Ukraine and Lithuania. Among them were European
and Euro-Atlantic cooperation, energy security, development of transport
corridors between the Black and the Baltic
Seas, common historic
heritage preservation, commemoration of totalitarian regime victims, education
and scientific cooperation, etc.
From Ukraine the
participants of the meeting were Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko, Defense
Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov, Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan, Minister for Transport
Yosyp Vinsky, Minister for Culture Vasyl Vovkun, Education Minister Ivan
Vakarchuk, Director of National Institute of National Heritage Ihor Yukhnovsky,
Kyiv Regional Administration Head Vira Ulyanchenko.
