Philippines–Ukraine relations  The bilateral relations of the Philippines and Ukraine began with a formal agreement in 1992. Neither country has a resident ambassador. Ukraine has a non resident ambassador in Tokyo, Japan. The Philippines recognized Ukraine's independence on January 22, 1992 and formal relations began on April 7, 1992. From April 1992 until June 1993 the bilateral relations between the two country were maintained through the Philippines' embassy in Poland. Since 1993 the Philippines' embassy in Moscow maintains jurisdiction over its country's relations with Ukraine. Since December 2004 Ukraine maintained its relations with the Philippines through its embassy in Tokyo in Japan. Prior to December 2004, Ukraine maintained relations with the Philippines through its embassies in Indonesia and Vietnam. In April 1997 a Ukrainian parliamentary delegation to Manila signed an interparliamentary cooperation agreement. In July 2003 Philippine Vice-President Teofisto Guingona met Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko in Manila. At the meeting they signed a protocol on political cooperation. In June 2005 the Philippine Speaker Jose de Venecia led a House delegation to Ukraine, and met with Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and a range of other top officials. They discussed Christian-Muslim interfaith dialogue, the development of two energy plants in the Philippines by the Ukrainian company Sukhin Energy Incorporated, and a debt conversion initiative. The Philippines and Ukraine have six bilateral agreements in place:   Bilateral trade between Ukraine and the Philippines amounted to $20.21 million in a six-month period in 2012. The Philippine negative trade balance for the same period amounted to $15.59 million. Among Ukraine's main export to the Philippines during the period are feed wheat, coloring materials, machinery for metal stamping, forging, bending, alignment, cutting, press, whey, ammonia. The Philippines imports from Ukraine during the same six month in 2012 amounted to $17.90 million. Among the Philippines main import from Ukraine are electrical products, electronic integrated circuits and electronic micro modules. Among the Philippines main export to Ukraine are bells, gongs, statuettes, frames and mirrors, of base metal, printing equipment, printing machines, auxiliary machine for printing, automatic data processing machines and units thereof and parts, raw tobacco, tobacco.