April 14 is a special date for Ukrainian-Saudi relations. On this date 30 years ago, then-Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma, acting as the head of a Ukrainian governmental delegation, arrived in Saudi Arabia to officially establish diplomatic relations between the two countries.

One more year of Ukrainian-Saudi relations has come to an end. The past year’s high-speed, turbulent pace was dictated by a complex set of internal and external factors affecting the agendas of each country, which neither had ever experienced before.