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The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin says he hopes to meet National Front leader Marine Le Pen when he visits Paris in May to persuade her to stop supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Le Pen is currently favorite to reach the runoff of France’s presidential election in May, but her chances of turning that into a second-round victory are slim.

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