Poroshenko hopes next Ukraine-EU summits to be held in Donetsk, Yalta

Future Ukraine-EU summits will be held in eastern Ukrainian Donetsk and Crimea’s Yalta, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko suggested, speaking at a plenary session of the Ukraine-EU Summit held in Kyiv, an UNIAN correspondent reports.

"I hope that someday we will hold the next Ukraine-EU summits, let me assume, we will hold them in Donetsk and Yalta. I would do everything possible to this end," President Poroshenko said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Kyiv is hosting a plenary session of the XIX Ukraine-EU Summit.

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