Participants of the meeting

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma during the working sitting of the technical Ukrainian-Russian Commission of the Inter-state Aviation Committee on Saturday, November 3, 2001. The meeting was devoted to the investigation of circumstances of the accident with the ill-fated Russian Tu-154, brought down by Ukrainian rocket C-200 over the Black Sea during the joint Russian- Ukrainian Anti-aircraft defense training. Security Councils Secretaries of Russia Vladimir Rushailo and Ukraine Evheni Marchuk and Ukrainian vice-Prime-Minister Oleh Dubina took part in the meeting. The state head got aquatinted with the results of the work of the commission and drew attention on the necessity to solve of a number of important questions – bilateral procedures, aiming to compensate damages and introduction of measures, preventing the like incidents. The President thanked Russian party for presented materials. Photo by Victor Pobedinski/ UNIAN