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Ukraine and Canada are opening a new page of cooperation, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. 

“We can open a new page of the program of cooperation between Ukraine and Canada,” he said at a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Kyiv on Saturday.

Poroshenko noted that “Canada strongly supports Ukraine, Ukraine’s unity, Ukraine’s solidarity, Ukraine’s struggle for independence and territorial integrity.”

He thanked Harper for the Canadian government’s supporting a large Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. He said that this also strengthens Ukrainian-Canadian relations.

Harper, in turn, said that Canada believes in democracy and European future of Ukraine and is ready to cooperate with Ukraine.