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The United Nations Organization has asked Ukraine for assistance to its peacekeeping mission to Mali, Ukrainian Defense Minister Pavlo Lebedev has said.

“Yes, there is a proposal, for example regarding Mali. It was, however, not an invitation. They asked us if we could render certain assistance. We replied that we have medical equipment, tents, and other property and we are ready to provide them with all that,” the minister said in an interview with the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper on Monday.

Lebedev also said that in the near future the Defense Ministry would propose the government various options to participate in the peacekeeping mission to Mali.