• Ukraine promotes IT, AI to diversify trade with Malaysia beyond oil.
• Discussions with Malaysia’s ministries target digital innovation, cybersecurity collaboration.
• Ukraine seeks more Jakim-accredited centres to boost market access.

Ukraine is aiming to expand its economic ties with Malaysia by promoting its advanced information technology and artificial intelligence sectors as key pillars for future bilateral cooperation. Denys Mykhailiuk, Charge d’Affaires ad interim of the Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia, highlighted the potential for diversification beyond traditional commodity trade, such as palm oil and sunflower oil.

 “Trading in services is very important now, and we are one of the biggest countries in IT, so we hope that our experience and our digital products might be useful for Malaysians to become a digital nation as well. We know for a fact that the Ukrainian IT and artificial intelligence sectors are definitely admirable, and we have also seen that they have attracted Malaysian interest,” Mykhailiuk said.

He revealed that Ukraine has initiated discussions with Malaysia’s Ministry of Digitalization and police to explore collaboration in Innovation and Cybersecurity. “For the digital products, we are talking to the Ministry of Digitalization and the police as well, because it is a slightly different system in Ukraine. In Ukraine, the Ministry of Digitalization has the aegis authority over all other agencies, whereas here, you have some kind of competition, in which every ministry is responsible for its part,” he explained.

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Denys Mykhailiuk, Charge d’Affaires ad interim of the Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia, also highlighted the support that Ukraine has made to achieve two additional Jakim-accredited halal certification centres. Further, he indicated that the halal industry has a great potential in generating a new trade between the two countries not just in food but also in the wide sphere of bilateral operations.

Despite structural differences, Mykhailiuk emphasized the strength of business-to-business ties, stating, “Malaysia is truly one of the best countries in the world to work with.”