The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in his first official visit to the United States, will speak at the meeting of the Atlantic Council of 18 September, notified on the Internet office of the Council.

Poroshenko will visit Washington at the invitation of the President of the United States 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 militia. Moscow these accusations fundamentally rejects. The United States has told that will extend assistance to the Ukrainian authorities, including the military, but this assistance, not looking statements Kiev, does not include weapons or granting Ukraine the status of an ally outside NATO.

Poroshenko in their own speech will talk about the situation in Ukraine, as well as his vision of the assistance of the United States. Speech and communication with the audience is planned after his meeting with Obama and conversion to a mutual session of Congress.


The Protocol, signed in Minsk on the results of the tripartite meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine, implies the adoption by Ukraine of the law on the special status of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and the holding of early elections and includes twelve points.

Kyiv authorities from April conducted in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of residents of Donbas. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid-April in Ukraine were forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded.

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