Buzek arrives in Ukraine to help boost economic cooperation and trade

Buzek will meet with Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and Prime Minister Valery Pustovoitenko. One of the subjects he will discuss during the visit is a joint project to transit Caspian oil from Odessa to Gdansk. Last October, during the economic forum "Poland-East", Ukrainian representatives talked about creating an international consortium which would complete the pipeline from Odessa to the Polish border, the construction of which had been abandoned because of insufficient funds. Poland's trade with Ukraine dropped by 10% last year to $1.327 billion as a result of the Russian crisis. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 4, Parkiet)