The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper held a telephone conversation, during which he discussed the situation in the Donbass and economic cooperation, is notified on the Internet office of the head of Ukraine on the last working day of the week.

" The sides discussed the situation in the Donbass. The leader expressed special gratitude to Canada for the decision to provide Ukraine's military-technical aid to the amount of eleven million dollars ", - said in the report.

in November, the head of the Ministry of defense of Canada Rob Nicholson said that the country will give Ukraine a non-lethal military aid to eleven million dollars.

Also Poroshenko and Harper discussed the possibility of increasing economic assistance to Ukraine through the mechanism of international financial organizations. The sides positively considered the resumption of talks at the expert level on the creation of a free trade zone between Ukraine and Canada, and agreed that it has to be created before the end of 2015.

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