Austria's foreign minister to visit Ukraine on January 3-4

Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz will visit the east of Ukraine, in particular areas near Mariupol, after the start of presidency of his country in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) at the beginning of the year.

This has been stated in a statement of the Foreign Ministry of Austria on Saturday, December 31, DW reported.

According to the agenda, the Austrian foreign minister will pay a visit on January 3-4 of 2017. Kurz aims to get acquainted with the situation in the conflict zone in the east of Ukraine.

Earlier, the minister promised that during the chairmanship in the OSCE in 2017, Austria would make efforts to ease the EU sanctions against Russia.

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