Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), will visit Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday 19 July, for meetings with several political leaders.

Mr Solana will meet with President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk and the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Petro Poroshenko.

The visit will provide an opportunity to take stock - in the context of the deepening EU-Ukraine partnership - of recent developments and discuss regional issues of mutual interest, in particular mutual efforts to resolve the conflict over the status of the Moldovan region of Transnistria.

After continuous negotiations and consultations between the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of the Ukraine and the Project “Improvement of Logistic Services and Marketing Channels for SMEs in Agriculture” team, an agreement was reached to adopt a regional approach of the Project implementation. This regional approach will enable the Project team to concentrate its activities on a more wide geographic scale. Thus, the following three regions have been identified for Project operations...

The European Commission has selected 803 third-country students and 133 third-country scholars, among which are 32 of Ukrainian nationality, from all over the world to receive Erasmus Mundus scholarships for the next academic year (2005-2006). The students will study in Europe for one or two years to obtain a European masters’ degree from one of the 35 Erasmus Mundus masters courses. They will follow their courses in at least two universities in two different countries, giving them the opportunity to familiarise themselves with European lifestyles, cultures and languages. The scholars will instead spend an average of three months in Europe working for one of the Erasmus Mundus masters courses.

Clarification

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The Minister of Agrarian Policy Oleksandr Baranivsky, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Ukraine Ambassador Ian Boag, representatives from the European Commission, State department of veterinary medicine and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy will take part in the press-conference.