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Major Mykola Melnychenko has said he will insist on a face-to-face meeting with Ukraine's second President (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma.

"I had a scheduled face-to-face meeting with Kuchma in 2007… The prosecutor’s office decides on this… I demand a face-to-face meeting," he told reporters on Wednesday before his questioning at the main investigative department of the PGO, when asked whether he is ready for a face-to-face confrontation

"We have contradictions in our evidence… These contradictions must be resolved; one of the forms of resolution is a face-to-face confrontation. The investigator is to decide whether it will take place or not," he said.

"I was summated at the Prosecutor General’s Office at 1100," he added/

When asked whether he was summoned for questioning, Melnychenko said: "We have no other form of work with the prosecutor’s office.

Melnychenko also pointed out that Kuchma is not his personal enemy. He added that if Kuchma is imprisoned, he would bring parcels to him.

Commenting on a statement made by Kuchma that he does not want a face-to-face confrontation with Melnychenko, the major said: "It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t want to. There are legal proceedings [going on], and he has to."