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SECRETARY OF RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL ARRIVES IN KIEV

RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti) Igor Ivanov, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, will go on a working visit to Kiev on Friday. He will discuss military and military-technical partnership with his colleague, Secretary of the Ukrainian Council of National Security and Defense Pyotr Poroshenko.

The agenda of the talks includes "strategic issues of bilateral relations, Russia-Ukraine cooperation in the struggle against new challenges and threats, military and military-technical cooperation, and other issues of mutual interest for ensuring national security," RIA was told in the Russian Security Council.

The Ukrainian side expects to discuss acute problems of bilateral relations in the defense industry and technical spheres. "The development of Ukraine-Russia cooperation, including in the defense industry and technical spheres, is an inalienable part of the creation of fundamentally new relations between our countries," Mr. Poroshenko said before Mr. Ivanov's visit.

The Ukrainian Council of National Security and Defense hopes that the visit of the Russian counterpart would promote the establishment of confidential relations between the two countries in the sphere of international security.