Yushchenko and Tarasyuk held a meeting on foreign policy issues

Victor Yushchenko conducted a working meeting with Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, president’s press office reported.

Tarasyuk informed the President of Ukraine’s preparations for a meeting of the subcommittee of Yushchenko-Putin Intergovernmental Commission scheduled for February 14.

During the meeting the Head of State charged the minister with the job of preparing a GUAM summit, which will be held in Kyiv in 2006.

Yushchenko also asked Tarasyuk to prepare an interdepartmental meeting presided over by the President to discuss Ukrainian-Russian relations.

High officials also discussed nominees to head Ukraine’s diplomatic missions abroad.