Benedict XVI and Viktor Yushchenko

The Pope Benedict XVI, right, welcoming President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko, left, during the meeting in Vatican, on Monday, June 1, 2009. This day President of Ukraine arrived on an official visit to Vatican. The program of the visit provides a meeting of the President of Ukraine with students and seminarists of the Ukrainian Papal College – the leading and oldest educational institution of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Rome. Ukrainian students and seminarists – representatives of different Ukrainian confessions, who studied in Papal highest educational institutional, will be present at this meeting. V. Yushchenko will also visit the grave of the Pope John Paul II in Vatican. Photo by Mikhail Markiv /POOL/UNIAN