In Huta Pieniacka President Victor Yushchenko and President of Poland Lech Kaczynski honored the memory of those who were killed in the massacre that happened there on February 28, 1944.
The two Presidents put flowers near the monument to the killed villagers and took part in the memorial service.
In Lviv airport President Victor Yushchenko met with President of Poland Lech Kaczynski.
From the airport the two Heads of States went to Huta Pieniacka village, where they were scheduled to take part in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the Huta Pieniacka massacre.
On February 28 President Victor Yushchenko will go with a working visit to Lviv region, President’s Press Secretary Iryna Vannykova informed today at her briefing.
Within the framework of the visit President Yushchenko will meet President Lech Kaczynski of Poland. The two Presidents then will take part in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Huta Pieniacka massacre.
Informing the media about the results of today’s meeting on coordination of state authorities’ work, President Victor Yushchenko said that the participants have reached agreement to realize three major steps.
The first step would be signature of a joint declaration today, on the state of economy in Ukraine, affirming readiness of all the parties to unite their efforts in fighting the crisis.
The second step would be elaboration of single position on cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF. The President informed also that a working group would elaborate a document, demonstrating joint political will of all the branches of power to provide implementation of concrete economic projects. As agreed by participants of the meeting this document is to be presented on March 2, at 15.00 to be presented for initialing.
Within the framework of the third step, representatives of the sides that took part in the meeting would form a working group to elaborate a joint anti-crisis package. President Yushchenko said that it first of all regards budgetary and general economic issues.
‘The first practical test will be the subject of relations with international financial organizations”, - said President Yushchenko at the meeting on coordination of state authorities work in times of economic crisis.
President Yushchenko emphasized that it is crucial to renew talks with the IMF within a week. “Resuming talks with the IMF is an expediency test of our today’s meeting. Time is against us. Our today’s task is to prepare a plan that would allow us to resume talks with the IMF”, - he said.
The president explained that successful cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF would provide a signal to other organizations, states and investors that “Ukrainian authorities do know the way out of the crisis”.