Arsenii Yatseniuk meets with V4 foreign ministers
On February
28, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk held a meeting with foreign
ministers of the Visegrád Group.
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The parties
discussed the political situation in Ukraine. Our country faces difficult and
responsible time, however, the Government is maintaining control over the
situation and will do everything to remove the strain within the country, Arsenii
Yatseniuk stressed. Representatives
of the Visegrád Group expressed readiness to
help to the new Ukrainian Government to overcome the financial turmoil in Ukraine.
Moreover,
the interlocutors considered the development of events in the Autonomous Republic
of Crimea. The V4 foreign ministers expressed concern regarding the events in
the peninsula. My position,
as the Prime Minister of Ukraine, is to solve the problem exceptionally in a
political way, Arsenii Yatseniuk highlighted. After the
meeting the ministers of foreign affairs of the Visegrád
Group flew to Donetsk to express support of the unity of Ukraine. The delegation
of the European Union, in particular, comprised of EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan
Tombiński, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Czech
Republic Lubomír Zaoralek, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister
of Slovakia Miroslav Lajčák,
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Slovakia to Ukraine Juraj Sivacek, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Hungary János Martonyi, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of
Hungary to Ukraine Mihal Bayer, Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Poland Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz,
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine Henrik Litvin. |