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| | Minister of Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Dr Dimitrij Rupel, concludes visit to Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Within the framework of his first visit as the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Dr Rupel met with Mr Viktor Yushchenko, the future President of Ukraine, Mr Kostyantin Hryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Volodymyr Litvin, Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, and Ms Yuliya Tymoshenko, the leading deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament. |
 | | Dr Rupel commended the outstanding commitment of the Ukrainian people to democratic processes and underlined the important fact that the recent political crisis in that country was resolved without violence. |
 | | Dr Rupel stated the OSCE's desire to establish cooperation with Ukraine in many areas, such as assistance in carrying out elections, freedom of the media, prevention of trafficking in human beings, education, protection of minorities, strengthening border security, and disposing of surplus ammunition and small arms. |
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