ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will go to Ukraine on Thursday to hold official meetings.
Erdogan will be received by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, and meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn (the Chairman of the Verkhonva Rada of Ukraine) and Kiev Mayor Alexander Omelchenko.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, who will be honored by honorary doctorate by the National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnic Institute, will join the meeting of Turkish-Ukrainian Business Council.
Erdogan will also meet with Boris Deich, the Chairman of the Supreme Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and Sergei Kunitsin, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Crimean State University of Engineering and Pedagogy will honor Erdogan by an honorary doctorate.
Erdogan will also meet with Mustafa Cemilev, the leader of Crimean Tatar community.
Prime Minister Erdogan is expected to return to Turkey on April 3.
(BRC-AÖ) 31.03.2004