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Yanukovych receives warm Israeli welcome
Journal Staff Report

JERUSALEM, Dec. 1 - President Victor Yanukovych received an extremely warm welcome on Thursday from his Israeli counterpart President Shimon Peres, The Jerusalem Post reported.

In addition to the military band and honor guard, Yanukovych was greeted by a much longer reception line of dignitaries than usual, including government ministers, representatives of various denominations and senior personnel from Israel's defense and security establishment, the newspaper reported.

Yanukovych, who is accompanied by a large ministerial entourage and an even larger media delegation, is on a reciprocal State Visit to Israel.

Peres visited Ukraine twice in the space of less than a year – first in November 2010 and again in September this year when he was the keynote speaker at the 8th Yalta European Strategy forum.

In greeting Yanukovych, Peres did not overlook the dark chapters in the long history of Ukraine and the Jewish People, but preferred to look to the future and hailed Yanukovych as a democratically elected president who is writing a new chapter in his country's history and in Ukraine's relations with Israel.

Although Yanukovych has been to Israel before, Peres termed the visit "historic" in that it is the first by a President of Ukraine.

Taking a retrospective look at Ukraine, Peres said that it had gone from dictatorship to democracy and was on the path to evolving from a great agricultural country to a great modern scientific and technological country with achievements that will enable it to join the global economy.

Peres put great emphasis on the importance of a flourishing economy. Democracy, he told his guest, means more than the right to vote. "It also means the right to exist." The inference was that people should be able to work and to earn enough to maintain a decent quality of life.

Peres expressed confidence that Yanukovych's visit would lead to greater mutual understanding and would enhance scientific and technological ties as well as efforts for peace in the region.

Peres credited Yanukovych with building a bridge of cooperation between Russia and Europe.

Yanukovych said a dynamic bilateral dialogue has developed and economic trade, scientific and cultural ties between the two countries have been strengthened.

The implementation of visa free travel between the two countries has helped to increase two-way tourism and mutual understanding at both government and people to people level, he said.

He was pleased to see the improvement in economic ties, and was hopeful that these would be expanded through the signing of a Free Trade Agreement in the course of his visit. Bilateral agreements in the fields of diplomacy, infrastructure and medicine were signed in the presence of the two presidents. (tj/ez)




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