KIEV, August 13 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has no plans to visit Russia in the near future, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The respected Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Thursday that Tymoshenko would attend the biennial MAKS air show outside Moscow on August 18-23.
"Yulia [Tymoshenko] receives many invitations to international conferences, shows and other conferences but she does not have time for these events," the prime minister's press secretary, Marina Soroka, told RIA Novosti.
Soroka said the prime minister was focused on the internal issues of Ukraine, which has suffered badly from the global financial crisis. She said Tymoshenko was planning on visiting the country's coal-mining regions.
Over 700 companies, including 465 Russian firms, will participate in MAKS, which bills itself as "a demonstration of the advantages and development trends of Russian science and industry in such high-tech areas as aviation, space, missile engineering."
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said military aircraft will continue to dominate the company's foreign sales in 2009, and will total about $2.6 billion.
