Ukraine will send top-level delegation to Eastern Partnership summit

BRUSSELS, May 5 /UKRINFORM/. The participation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in the Eastern Partnership summit has been already confirmed, and participation of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the event is also highly probable, a source close to the Czech Presidency of the European Union told an UKRINFORM correspondent on confidentiality terms.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenka and President Vladimir Voronin of Moldova will not come to Prague on May 7, the source said. “They decided so on their own. Belarus will be represented at the summit by Vice Premier Vladimir Semashko, and Moldova by Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan. The other of the six partner countries will be represented at the presidential level,” he noted.

Asked about the European delegation to the Eastern Partnership summit, the source said “as planned, the heads of states and governments of the majority of EU member-countries will arrive in Prague.”