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Yanukovych meets with Ecumenical Patriarch on Mount Athos, says source

08.10.2011, 15:43

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during his state visit to Greece made a private visit to Mount Athos, where he met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, a source in diplomatic circles told Interfax-Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during his state visit to Greece made a private visit to Mount Athos, where he met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, a source in diplomatic circles told Interfax-Ukraine.

The source said that the Ukrainian president visited Mount Athos on Friday, October 7, after attending a business forum in Thessaloniki. He met with the patriarch in Karyes - the administrative center of Mount Athos.

The details of this meeting have not been specified.

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