Ὁ Ἐξοχ. κ. Πρωθυπουργός κατά τήν ἄφιξιν αὐτοῦ εἰς τά Πατριαρχεῖα προσεκύνησεν εἰς τόν Π. Πατριαρχικόν Ναόν, τῶν κωδώνων αὐτοῦ κρουομένων χαρμοσύνως.
Μεταξύ τῶν δύο ἀνδρῶν ὑπῆρξεν ἐγκάρδιος συνομιλία, ἐν συνεχείᾳ δέ ὅ τε Πατριάρχης καί ὁ Πρωθυπουργός προέβησαν εἰς δηλώσεις πρός τά μέσα ΓενικῆςἘνημερώσεως, κατά τάς ὁποίας ἡ Α. Ἐξοχότης ἐξέφρασε τόν σεβασμόν αὐτοῦ πρός τήν Μητέρα Ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ Οὐκρανικοῦ λαοῦ καί πρός τό σεπτόν πρόσωπον τῆς Α.Θ.Παναγιότητος, ἐνῷ ὁ Παναγιώτατος ἀπηύθυνεν ἐξ ὀνόματος τῆς Μητρός Ἐκκλησίας τάς εὐχάς αὐτῆς καί τήν εὐλογίαν Του πρός τόν Οὐκρανικόν λαόν καί τόν χαιρετισμόν Του πρός τόν Ἐξοχ. Πρόεδρον κ. Γιαννουκόβιτς καί τόν Σεβ. Μητροπολίτην Κιέβου κ. Βλαδίμηρον.
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On Sunday evening, March 13, 2011, His Excellency Mikola Yanovich Azarov, Prime Minister of the Ukraine, embarking on an official visit to Turkey and accompanied by their Excellencies Sergei Kamishev, Minister of Justice in the Ukraine, and Sergei Korsunsi, Ambassador for the Ukraine in Ancyra, and other colleagues, visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate directly upon his arrival at Istanbul airport and was warmly received by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
Prime Minister Yanovich venerated the holy icons at the Patriarchal Church of St. George, while the official bells sounded. A cordial conversation ensued between the two leaders, followed by a declaration to the mass media, wherein the Prime Minister expressed the admiration of the Ukrainian nation to the Mother Church and His All-Holiness personally, while the Ecumenical Patriarch addressed his blessing to the Ukrainian people on behalf of the Mother Church as well as his greetings to the President Yanukovich and Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev.
