In the framework of the official visit of Ukrainian Government delegation to Saudi Arabia (Riyadh city) the Head of SSUFSCP Volodymyr Lapa will participate in the Fifth joint meeting of the Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Saudi Commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation.

Ukrainian part of Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Saudi Commission is headed by the Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine – Taras Kutovyi. The delegation of the Government of Ukraine also includes representatives from Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, Ministry of Infrastructure, Ministry of Youth and Sports, State Property Fund of Ukraine.

The visit is aimed at further development of cooperation between Ukraine and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a number of fields, particularly in trade, investment, innovation, standardization, metrology, conformity assessment and agriculture. For this purpose, members of the Ukrainian delegation will also take part in a number of bilateral meetings with the representatives of the Government of Saudi Arabia.

The visit of Ukrainian Government delegation to Saudi Arabia will last from   the 3^d till the 7^th of April, 2017.