President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a phone conversation with Emir of the State of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The parties discussed the possibility of establishing effective cooperation in order to evacuate citizens of Ukraine and other countries from the territory of Afghanistan.
The leaders also discussed attracting Qatari investments to Ukraine's economy, including opening joint ventures in agriculture and industry and stepping up military-technical cooperation.
"I consider Qatar one of the main partners in the Gulf region," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, proposing to intensify cooperation to achieve concrete results.
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani congratulated Ukraine on the 30th anniversary of independence and stressed the importance of developing bilateral relations, in particular in the trade and economic sphere, and accepted the President's invitation to pay an official visit to Ukraine.