Monday, February 23, 2009

Sitting of Ukrainian part of Ukraine-EU Cooperation Committee held

Today the twenty eighth sitting of Ukrainian part of Ukraine-EU Cooperation Committee was held, under the chairmanship of Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Hryhoriy Nemyria.

A peculiar attention was paid to the issues joined to the process of preparing to an International investment conference on modernization of gas transport system of Ukraine, slated for spring of the current year in Brussels, the results of consultations into a new practical instrument to replace Ukraine-EU Action Plan and issues tied with the process of joining of United Energy Systems of Ukraine to the European Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE).

The topic of associated membership of Ukraine in the EU Seventh Framework Program for Research and Technological Development has been also tackled, apart from others.

On the outcomes of the meeting a protocol decision of the sitting of Ukrainian part of Ukraine-EU Cooperation Committee was approved.