US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is on an official visit to Kyiv, has already met with MPs and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – May 6, 2021 – Diplomatic Affairs
The official part of Blinken’s visit to Kyiv on May 6 began with his meeting with the people’s deputies of Ukraine. Officially, it was supposed to start at about 9:20. As it became known from the participants of the meeting, it lasted about an hour. It was reportedly attended by Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, well known in Ukraine.
In particular, the meeting, according to its participant, People’s Deputy and fifth President Petro Poroshenko, discussed “concentration of efforts on the implementation and defense of reforms,” and the meeting itself was “constructive and symbolic.” According to him, attention was paid to the reform of corporate governance, the reform of the independence of the anti-corruption infrastructure, the issue of the rule of law.
After these talks, Blinken went to meet with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. It was officially scheduled to begin at 9:40 p.m.
Following her results, Kaleb wrote on Twitter for about 10 hours that “it is important that my colleague and friend Anthony Blinken pays his first visit to this part of Europe to Ukraine.”
“Strengthening cooperation between Ukraine and the United States as democratic allies in Central Europe and the Black Sea is a contribution to the security and success of our states and the entire Euro-Atlantic space,” said the Ukrainian Foreign Minister.
According to the schedule, the program of Blinken’s visit was to be laid at 10:10 – laying flowers to the memorial of the conflict in Donbas in Kyiv, and at 10:20 Blinken was to meet with Metropolitan Epiphanius at the St. Michael’s Monastery.
After that – Blinken’s meeting with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, which, according to the plan, should start at 10:45 and last about an hour.
The US Secretary of State arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, May 5, after 11 p.m.
Together with the head of the US State Department, Kyiv will be visited by his Deputy for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, well known in Ukraine.
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Source: Ukrgate