Special Representative of Ukraine for the Middle East and Africa Yevhen Mykytenko held a meeting with Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Ukraine Judiya Alhathal at his request.
The interlocutors noted the high level of cooperation in political, trade-and-economic, agricultural and industrial sectors. Emphasis was laid on the importance of further intensification of contacts at all levels in order to maintain the positive dynamics of growth of bilateral trade, which for ten months of 2012 amounted to almost 900 million USD, the Ukrainian export’s constituent of which was 770 million USD.
The parties also discussed current issues of the Ukrainian-Saudi cooperation in the framework of the UN and other international organizations, as well as the schedule of exchange of high-level visits for this year.