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Ms Gerashchenko held a brief conversation with the Belarusian leader on the sidelines of the summer session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly held in Minsk July 5.

"Lukashenko has said he plans to visit Ukraine in the near future to discuss the whole range of issues of bilateral relations," Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook.

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