Lukashenka, Poroshenko to meet on Dec 21

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko on December 21.

"We are likely to meet with the Ukrainian president on Sunday. He called me yesterday and asked for holding a meeting and discussing certain issues, and I have had expressed my wish [to do so] as well because we have things to discuss under the current circumstances," Lukashenko said during his visit to the State Forensic Examination Committee.

The Belarusian state media quoted Lukashenko's statement.

"I understood from that conversation that the Ukrainian administration, for instance, the Ukrainian president, was absolutely not hindering the beginning of a new round of the Minsk negotiations," the president said.