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Vice President Joe Biden is agreed to be scheduled to visit Ukraine early next week to reassure authorities leaders reformers of the USA’ continued support “in face of continued Russian military intervention” within the country’s restive east, administration officers stated. Biden, making his fifth visit to Ukraine as vice president, plans to arrive in Kyiv late Sun. night for a collection of appointments early within the week. On Mon., he will meet not together with President Petro Poroshenko Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, in addition to at a roundtable with civil society activists different reformers. Speech to lawmakers Biden is moreover agreed to be scheduled to speak Tues. to the Rada, or congress, a rare alternative for a foreign leader. FILE – The Ukraine parliament chambers. He’s more likely to press upon legislators in that they “have a special obligation to keep Ukraine moving forward,” a senior administration official stated in a phone briefing Wed. with reporters. A serious point of conversation shall be how to make sure in that “Russia and the separatists live up to their obligations under the Minsk Agreement,” the official stated. The pact, reached in Feb., was meant to de-escalate hostilities within the east. …

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