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Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans has said the Netherlands is ready to help Ukraine rebuild infrastructure in Donbas and assist in addressing the humanitarian crisis in the region, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press service has reported. 

“Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin on Aug. 21 held talks with his counterpart from the Netherlands, Frans Timmermans, who is on a working visit to Ukraine. The main focus of the meeting was devoted to the situation in Donbas and practical measures by the Ukrainian side and the international community to resolve it. In this context, Timmermans stressed the Netherlands’s readiness to assist Ukraine in rebuilding infrastructure in Donbas and contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis in the region,” the press service said.

The sides also touched on interaction between the two countries in issues of European integration of Ukraine, in particular in the context of the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU and the realization of the second phase of the action plan on Ukrainian citizens’ visa-free travels to the EU.

Klimkin and Timmermans also stressed the need for an immediate investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine’s east on July 17, 2014, and to bring to account those responsible for this act of terror.