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Kyiv and Washington have agreed to hold a founding meeting of the Ukraine-US commission on strategic partnership late in October this year.

Ukraine’s Acting Foreign Minister Volodymyr Khandohiy and US Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns reached
agreement in New York, the Ukrayinska Pravda Web publication reported,
referring to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s press service.

“Major attention during the talks was paid to seeking the ways of
the practical strengthening of relations, strategic partnership with
the United States on the basis of the charter on strategic partnership,
and to supporting a political dialogue at the highest and high levels,”
reads the statement.