Poroshenko talks peace, asks United States for more “lethal weapons”. (to “keep peace” in the east of his country)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday asked the United States for more military assistance and urged it to supply weapons to Ukraine.

“We urgently need more military equipment both lethal and non-lethal,” Poroshenko told a joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

In his address, Poroshenko accused Russia of “launching an aggression against Ukraine” and of what he said was “annexation of Crimea”. He added that Ukraine would do its best to retake the peninsula.

The Ukrainian president pledged to seek peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis in collaboration with Russia.

“In my capacity as president I am going to seek peaceful settlement,” Poroshenko told the U.S. congressmen.
“It is my burden. But it is also the burden of [Russian President Vladimir Putin],” Poroshenko stressed.

• Poroshenko noted that he was in contact with world leaders, including President Putin, on how to settle the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

“Believe me, the dialogue is not easy. However, all military hostilities should be stopped,” Poroshenko told the U.S. congressmen.
He said he was ready to grant broad rights to southeast Ukraine.
“I am ready to give the separatists more rights than any other part of Ukraine ever had in the history of Ukrainian nation. If the war is about rights and not geopolitical ambitions, then we are going to find a solution,” Poroshenko said.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/750179
18/9/14
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