23 June 2001
Ukrainian defense minister to visit Brest Belarus
Army General Oleksandr Kuzmuk, Ukraine's defense minister, will arrive in Belarus on June 23 for a three-day visit, according to the press office of the Belarusian defense ministry. On the same day he will hold
face-to-face talks with his Belarusian counterpart, General Lieutenant Leonid Maltsev, in Brest. Later in the day, delegations of the two defense ministries will meet to discuss cooperation.
The Belarusian and Ukrainian defense ministers are expected to take part in a ceremony of laying flowers at a monument to the Brest Fortress defenders together with Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Aleksy II. They will also visit the St. Nicholas church in the Brest Fortress Memorial. On the last day of the visit, the Ukrainian delegation will visit the 6th Detached Mechanized Brigade in Grodno.
http://brestonline.com/en/news/news15.html