Moscow, Kyiv to expand interregional cooperation in electricity
SOCHI. April 30 (Interfax) - Russia and Ukraine plan to sign a number of documents on electricity and border-area cooperation.
"The Ukrainian and Russian sides are preparing a host of important documents that will be signed during the Russian president's visit to Ukraine on May 17," Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said at the start of a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian commission on economic cooperation in Sochi.
Bilateral talks were held prior to the meeting.
"We will sign a protocol today that sets out the various areas of economic life in Ukraine and Russia," Azarov said.
One of the documents to be signed at the meeting is a memorandum on cooperation between the Russian Regional Development Ministry and the Ukrainian Regional Development and Construction Ministry on interregional and border-area cooperation.
The sides also plan to sign a memorandum on cooperation between Inter RAO UES , Energorynok and Ukrinterenergo and a memorandum of cooperation between RusHydro and Ukrgidroenergo.
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