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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will not attend a meeting of the OSCE council of foreign ministers that will be held in Ukraine on December 5-6 this year, the U.S. State Department reported on Friday.

According to U.S. media reports, the State Department did not specify whether the cancellation of the visit is related to the situation with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

“Kerry had been expected to attend a meeting of the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in early December. The United States now will be represented by Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Kerry would not attend because of scheduling issues. She was asked whether his decision was related to circumstances surrounding jailed former prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko,” the Courant online newspaper reported.

However, Psaki said that she could not rule out circumstances.

Kyiv will host a meeting of the OSCE council of foreign ministers in Kyiv on December 5-6.