On November 26-27, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin is on an official visit to the State of Israel, where he is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the Foreign Ministry's heads, individual ministers, the leaders and other members of the Knesset.

"Klimkin, in his capacity of Chairman of the Ukrainian part of the Joint Ukrainian-Israeli Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation, and Zeev Elkin, Minister of Environmental Protection of Israel, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, Chairman of the Israeli part of the Joint Ukrainian-Israeli Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation, will discuss the progress in implementation of agreements reached at the tenth meeting of the Commission," the Foreign Ministry's press service said on Saturday.

The ministers will elaborate further steps to intensify practical cooperation in economic and investment spheres, as well as in the fields of high technologies and development of startups in Ukraine.

"The economic component of the visit includes, apart from discussion of relevant issues during the planned meetings, visits of Klimkin to leading Israeli research and development companies, startup companies and to the Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem," the Foreign Ministry said.