The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper nourishes the hope that the issue of providing Ukraine with military aid will be discussed during the summit " the Big seven ". About this he said on the first day of the weekend at a mutual press conference with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
according to his statement, in the matter of aid to the armed forces of Ukraine, and among them the provision of defensive non-lethal or lethal weapons, " we have really much more to do." We must establish our interaction with our colleagues ", - quotes the expression of Harper Ukrainian Agency.
"I have a dream that We will talk about this in our summit "the Big seven", he added.
for his part, the head of Ukraine said that the two countries have plans to expand cooperation in military-technical sphere, however, the question of canadian supplies to Kiev lethal weapons.
"We are not talking about lethal weapons, after all, Ukraine has its own great perspective of the MIC so I can produce lethal weapon ", - said Poroshenko.
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.
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