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Mishchenko added that both countries should be closer and joint their efforts: “We are bound to friendship and cooperation. This is our destiny.”
Touching upon the Treaty of Unity signed between Ukraine`s People Republic and West Ukrainian People Republic on January 22, 1919, the ambassador said that this holds a special place in the history of Ukrainian statehood. “I have watched the video depicting the history of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. I should mention that the page of the ADR in the history of Azerbaijan was very familiar to me, and I saw some striking points common to the fates of our peoples and their struggle for national liberation”, he said.