BRUSSELS, August 30 (RIA Novosti) -Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the military-technical cooperation between the European Union and Ukraine has not been discussed at the European Council summit, as this issue had only been raised during bilateral talks.
"Military-technical cooperation was not the key issue at the meeting of the European Council, this [subject] had only been discussed bilaterally. I think, the key security issues will be discussed on NATO summit in the United Kingdom," Poroshenko told journalists after his meeting with EU leaders.
On Saturday, the European Council gathered in Brussels, to appoint senior positions and discuss further economic sanctions against Russia over its alleged participation in the Ukrainian conflict.
The conflict in Ukraine has damaged the relations between Russia and the West, as the West keeps accusing Russia of building up forces on its border with eastern Ukraine and supplying independence supporters with weapons.
The European Union and the United States have imposed several rounds of economic sanctions, targeting Russia’s finance, energy and defense sectors. Russia has responded by banning food imports from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway.
