President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych is about to meet with head of the Russian government Vladimir Putin in Istanbul today.

According to an UNIAN correspondent, V. Yanukovych finished two-day working visit to Greece and left for Turkey on a working visit.

According to the program of the visit, the head of the state will take part in the Summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia that will take place today.

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It is scheduled that the President of Ukraine will deliver a speech before participants of the summit and will speak with mass media representatives.

The bilateral meetings of V. Yanukovych with President of Turkey Abdullah Gul, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev are also scheduled within the frameworks of the working visit on June 8.

The Ukrainian delegation consists of Head of Administration of President Serhiy Lyovochkin, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Konstyantyn Hryshchenko, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko, head of SBU Valeriy Horoshkovskyi and also deputies head of the Administration of President Andriy Honcharuk and Serhiy Vasyljev.  

It is scheduled that V. Yanukovych will return to Kyiv today’s evening.