UKRAINIAN BUSINESS PEOPLE ON VISIT TO CROATIA

ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - Croatia and Ukraine have traditionally good political ties, and the purpose of the arrival of a large Ukrainian delegation of business people (in Zagreb) is to help promote the economic cooperation, said Anatoliy Kinah, the head of the Ukrainian association of industrialists and business people (USIP), at the opening of Tuesday's Croatian-Ukrainian economic forum in Zagreb. Kinah stressed that Ukraine was very interested in cooperation with Croatia in the fields of ship building, engineering industry, in particular, machine building industry, maritime transport, pharmaceutical industry and tourism. The Ukrainian delegation included USIP senior officials, managers of a dozen companies and representatives of business associations. Prior to the start of the talks, Nadan Vidosevic, the head of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK), and Volodymyr Schelkunov, the head of Ukrainian national committee of the international commercial chamber, signed an agreement on cooperation between the two chambers. Vidosevic said the two countries had great potentials for the enhancement of their economic relations. Last year, the trade between these two countries came to only 23.7 million dollars. Croatia's export to Ukraine amounted to 7.1 million dollars, whereas the import from Ukraine was 16.6 million dollars. (hina) ms