On the 8th of February 2012 The Ambassador of Ukraine to Malaysia H.E. Mr. Ihor V. Humennyi had the meeting with Tan Sri Ahmad Fuad bin Ismail, the Mayor of the City of Kuala Lumpur. The interlocutors discussed in general the potential of the interregional Ukrainian-Malaysian cooperation. The perspectives for establishing the partnership between the City of Kuala Lumpur and Kyiv City were specified in more details (between the Devan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur and the Kyiv City State Administration of Ukraine).

In this regard, the Mayor of the City of Kuala Lumpur elaborated more on the insufficient awareness of the inhabitants of Kuala Lumpur about Ukraine and its capital. He also welcomed the Ambassador’s proposal of establishing the closer ties between the representatives of the capital cities’ administrative bodies of both countries. In this context, the possibility of the exchange of visits by delegations of the Kyiv City State Administration of Ukraine and the Devan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur were also discussed.

The participants agreed on the expediency of establishing of partnership relations between the capitals and signing the agreement of cooperation which would give additional opportunities to expand contacts between the representatives of business circles of both countries.