The Prime Minister of Canada will visit Ukraine at the beginning of the summit " the Big seven "
The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper will arrive in Kiev to meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yesterday Bavarian G7 summit they intend to discuss the steps by the international community about Russia in light of the fighting in the Donbas and economic support of Ukraine.
Canada is the third largest population of Ukrainians in the world after Ukraine and Russia, in the country live about 1, 2 million people with Ukrainian roots. This will be the third visit by Harper to Ukraine since January 2014.
in the Bavarian castle ELMAU June 7-8 will meet the leaders of the countries "Big seven" - Germany, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the UK. Russia, which was adopted in "seven" in 1998, with 2014 in fact excluded from participation in the meetings of the group because of the events in Ukraine. Kiev expects from the summit of solidarity in support of Ukraine.
As informs referring to the canadian Ambassador Roman Vashchuk, Harper will visit Ukraine on June 6-7. Here he will meet with Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk and representatives of Ukrainian civil society. The focus of these meetings will be " possible responses of the international brotherhood of aggression of Russia against Ukraine and the support of economic reforms implemented by Ukraine ".
for its part the official representative the Ministry of defense of Ukraine Viktoria Kushnir said that Harper will lead a canadian delegation, which is also planning a summit meeting of defense Ministers. At the end of the summer to Ukraine must arrive instructors from Canada, who in September will begin training Ukrainian military.