“OLVIA-PRESS”

THE UKRAINIAN BUSINESS WILL COME TO DNIESTRIA.

On September 11^th, the DMR President Igor Smirnov had a meeting with the extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in Moldova, the representative of the Ukrainian President in the negotiation process Piotr Chaly, as well as with a group of famous Ukrainian businessmen. The topic of meeting was discussion of possibilities of multilateral economic cooperation. A large group of Ukrainian businessmen headed by economists – employees of the Ukrainian Embassy – discussed the possibility of enlarging and enforcement of mutually profitable contacts with the Dniestrian side.

The General Director of Company “Stirol-Himtreid” Victor Kovalski, representing the concern “Stirol”, “it’s the biggest chemical enterprise of Ukraine, which is busy with production of mineral fertilizers, products of organic and non-organic chemistry, and which would like to present our commodities as the best Ukrainian brand in your region. We want to talk to the Dniestrian side about cooperation, about possible rearrangement of contacts, which have unfortunately been lost recently. We intend to talk seriously about different joint projects, which we could offer to authority of your republic from our side, and to discuss namely with the industrial group of your consumers. It's delivery of mineral fertilizers, provision of stern additives for poultry farming, stockbreeding, and also processing of polymer materials. We also intend to consider a question such as foundation of a joint venture for packing of food as well as of consumer goods. The very approach interested us, when we carry out quite an open dialogue also in giving information, statistic data, advantages and disadvantages. Today a rather frank conversation took place, and as the DMR President said, every ten days this question will be under control, concrete conclusions will be made. People who have looked into each other's eyes should confirm their words by deals".

The minister of foreign affairs Valery Litskay, the minister of healthcare Ivan Tkachenko, the first deputy minister of industry Yury Ganin, and the first deputy minister of agriculture Victor Kiskin were representing the Dniester Moldavian Republic at the meeting. At the same time, when representatives of business and respective ministries were discussing the projects of further joint work, Igor Smirnov and Piotr Chaly shared opinions about specific of the negotiation process in context of the meeting taken place in Kiev in July 2002.