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At the UN General Assembly Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko will propose creating an international group from among the countries, which do not support the annexation of the Crimea, in charge of issues of de-occupation of Crimea, the Ukrainian president’s representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Lutsenko of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction said.

“Speaking at the UN General Assembly, the president will propose the countries that oppose the annexation of Crimea unite their efforts and create an international group of countries to support and organize issues of de-occupation of Crimea,” Lutsenko said at a meeting of the conciliatory council of the leaders of factions, committees and groups on Sept.18.