Yatseniuk to participate in Ukraine-Germany business forum in Berlin on Friday

KYIV. Oct 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk will take part in the Ukrainian-German business forum in Berlin on October 23, Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavicius said.

"[There will be] 600 participants [at the forum], German companies mainly. All German companies, whose names are familiar to all of you, will be at this forum," he said.

The minister said that Deputy Prime Minister Hennadiy Zubko, Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Dmitry Shymkiv, Board Chairman of Naftogaz Ukrainy Andriy Kobolev and Head of State Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov, as well as four other ministers, will represent Ukraine.

According to him, an agreement to set up German Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine will be made during the forum.

Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Natalia Mykolska said that the forum's program includes several panels: on the ongoing situation in Ukraine, the reforms in the country, industry and energy, transport and logistics, the agrarian sector and processing, and the hi-tech and IT-sector.

She said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the forum.