Merkel assures Poroshenko Ukraine’s fate not to be decided at G20 summit behind Kyiv’s back

German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her Wednesday’s phone conversation with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko July 5 assured her interlocutor that the fate of Ukraine would not be decided without Kyiv’s participation at the G20 summit in Hamburg, the Ukrainian presidential administration’s press service reported.

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“The parties discussed the situation in Donbas and coordinated the implementation of the Minsk agreements in the context of preparations to the G20 Summit in Hamburg and the meeting of the leaders of France and Germany with the President of Russia,” the press service wrote.

“Angela Merkel assured Petro Poroshenko that during the meeting nothing would be decided about Ukraine without Ukraine,” reads the report.

Read alsoCanadian FM to attend Ukraine conference in London, G20 summit in HamburgAs UNIAN reported earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin would hold trilateral talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine during the G20 summit in Hamburg.

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