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First Vice President of ULIE Serhiy Prokhorov held a working meeting with Commercial Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine Tomas Matulevicius.
The parties discussed the state and prospects of bilateral business cooperation, increasing Ukrainian exports to the EU, projects to rebuild Ukrainian infrastructure after the war.
Serhiy Prokhorov noted that Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs lobbied for the development of industry on the basis of decarbonization, implementation of new technologies, robotic industry.
"Many industrial facilities were destroyed or damaged as a result of the occupiers' shelling. Their restoration should be based on the new principles, namely modernization in accordance with international standards. It is also necessary to take into account the loss of human potential," he noted.
Lithuania is one of the closest partners of Ukraine and ULIE in the European Union. During 8 months of war, the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists (LPK), which is friendly to Ukrainian industrialists, has raised and allocated 300 thousand euros for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as well as dispatched 500 tons of cargo for our military forces in the south.
Traditionally, the ULIE and LPK have held bilateral economic forums with the participation of the presidents as well as meetings of the bilateral business council.
First the coronavirus pandemic and then the Russian attack reduced the number of offline meetings but the partners regularly organize joint events online. Also this summer Economic Committee of the Lithuanian Seimas visited Kyiv and held its meeting at the ULIE office.
The next meeting of the Business Council is scheduled for December 9 via videoconference.
A separate issue was the reconstruction of housing infrastructure in Ukraine. It is known that more than 140 thousand private households and several thousand apartment buildings were destroyed or damaged due to the war. These are huge figures, hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes.
"Therefore, we are interested in the so-called digital construction offered by Lithuania in which detailed projects of the new buildings (schools, residential buildings, etc.) are developed using interactive systems and then quickly mounted. We have already had certain developments to speed up the process of building housing for IDPs," Serhiy Prokhorov said.
The parties agreed on constant communications, involvement of interested Lithuanian business in the implementation of projects in Ukraine, etc. Cooperation will continue in a working format.