OREANDA-NEWS. August 02, 2012. Our goal - to strengthen Ukrainian-American cooperation in the economic field. For this purpose it is necessary to push aside existing barriers and to identify key tasks for ministries and departments.

This was announced by First vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi during the Ukrainian-American Council for Trade and Investment opening meeting, which was held in Washington.

According to Khoroshkovskyi, development of mutually beneficial cooperation with the United States is a key priority for Ukraine.

"U.S. - Ukraine's strategic partner. Nevertheless, annual trade turnover at 3.6 billion U.S. dollars doesn't meet the level of our relations. We need to intensify bilateral trade," First vice Prime Minister of Ukraine declared.

According to him, the development of intersectoral collaboration is an important and promising.

"Today we have the positive results of cooperation in agriculture, aircraft, space industry as well. But the existing potential we use is not at full capacity. Ukraine is ready to seek new kinds of involving more American companies to enhance cooperation in economic area," said Khoroshkovskyi.