U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday that the United States was moving forward with an additional US$335 million in security assistance, the White House said in a statement.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) jokes that UkraineÕs President Petro
Poroshenko (R) is buying lunch, before sitting down to their bilateral
meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington March 31, 2016.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday that the United States was moving
forward with an additional US$335 million in security assistance, the
White House said in a statement.
Biden, who met with Poroshenko on the sidelines of a nuclear
security summit, also told the Ukrainian leader that efforts by Kiev to
form a reform-oriented government were critical to unlocking
international economic assistance, including a third US$1 billion U.S.
loan guarantee, the statement said.
(Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
- Reuters
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