"The implementation of the proposal of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich (along with Viktor Yushchenko, he is considered to be a main candidate for victory in the October 31 presidential elections) that the Russian language be a business language and the second official language on Ukraine's territory can be of historic significance," the deputy said.
"This will clearly stimulate creation of a common market that is so necessary to the peoples of Ukraine, Russia and other CIS countries, and industrial-economic and scientific-technical coordination of the two countries which was largely infringed to the damage to us and to the joy of our competitors in the previous years, after the breakup of the Soviet Union," Mr. Kokoshin stressed.
Besides that, as he said, implementation of the "Yanukovich doctrine" on the Russian language will help develop the two countries' humanitarian and cultural relations "in the context of full mutual respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine and Russia."
"All this will most favourably tell also on cooperation between Ukraine's regions and the entities of Russia in the spirit of the discussion of the question which we recently held with the participation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and the heads of the administrations of the presidents of Russia and Ukraine," the deputy added.
