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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appealed to his French counterpart to "facilitate the issuance of visas" for Ukrainian soccer fans planning to travel to France for the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Poroshenko's office says he made the appeal to Francois Hollande during a telephone call on June 6.

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