Influential U.S. senators Robert Menendez and Bob Corker made an offer on the first day of the week the speaker of the lower house of Congress John Boehner to invite the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to speak at the General session of Congress during his visit to Washington on September 18.

Poroshenko will visit Washington on 18 September at the invitation of U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama, with whom he will discuss the situation in Ukraine. Preparation for the visit takes place against the background of how the United States continues to accuse the Russian Federation in the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, as well as among them in support of the East-Ukrainian militia. Moscow these accusations fundamentally rejects. The US has already said that will extend assistance to the Ukrainian authorities, including the military, but this assistance, not looking statements Kiev, still does not include weapons or granting Ukraine the status of an ally outside NATO.

" We think that for each member of Congress is critical to listen to the President of Ukraine in this defining moment not only for Ukraine but also for the Russian Federation and to international order established after the cold war ", - reported in the appeal Democrat Menendez, who chairs the international Committee of the Senate, and the Republican Corker from the same Department.

" We urge you to extend the hand of friendship Ukraine, inviting the President of Hillary Clinton to sign up to a mutual session of Congress and to share their views on the critical situation in Ukraine, " according to the senators.

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