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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss cooperation in the security sphere and U.S. assistance in reforms, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

“There is a list of issues. I cannot speak for the U.S. president what issues will be raise for discussion at the meeting, but of course, we will discuss the situation around the occupied Donbas, joint tactics. We have discussed this with Kurt Volker (Special Representative of the U.S. State Department on Ukraine). Now we should approve it at the highest level. We will discuss cooperation in the security sphere. This is one of the key issues. Of course, we will discuss U.S. assistance to promotion of our reforms,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the 14th annual YES conference in Kyiv on Saturday.

Klimkin said that the meeting will be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Permanent representatives of the United States and Ukraine in the UN, advisors and the minister will take part in the meeting.

He also said that Poroshenko has around 20 meeting scheduled during his visit to the United States.