Viktor Yanukovych will go to Brussels, the...

Yanukovych, who beat Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a runoff on February 7, is to be inaugurated on Thursday.

"The agreed date of the visit is March 1. At present it is agreed that in Brussels there will be meetings with EU President Herman van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and the president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek," Kommersant-Ukraine quoted an EU source as saying.

Officially, the visit will be announced only after the inauguration, but the paper said all the officials had informally agreed to meetings with the new Ukrainian president.

In his congratulatory message to Yanukovych on February 11, Rompuy invited the president-elect to Brussels "at the earliest opportunity."

Yanukovych is expected to visit Moscow sometime in the first 10 days of March, but that trip will take place after he goes to Brussels. Diplomatic sources told the paper that the exact date depended on Yanukovych"s success in gathering together

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