Polish President in Kiev for talks with Zelensky

KATOWICE, Dec. 3, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Polish President Andrzej Duda addresses the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, Dec. 3, 2018. Delegates from nearly 200 countries began talks on Sunday on urgent actions to curb climate change three years after the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement set a goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. The two-week UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP24, is held in the southern Polish city of Katowice. (Xinhua/Jaap Arriens/IANS)

KATOWICE, Dec. 3, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Polish President Andrzej Duda addresses the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, Dec. 3, 2018. Delegates from nearly 200 countries began talks on Sunday on urgent actions to curb climate change three years after the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement set a goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. The two-week UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP24, is held in the southern Polish city of Katowice. (Xinhua/Jaap Arriens/IANS)

Warsaw, August 23 (IANS) Polish President Andrzej Duda has travelled to Kiev to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss military and humanitarian assistance, the Warsaw government announced on Tuesday.

Cabinet office head Pawel Szrot said that Duda would then join Zelensky in online discussions in the context of the Crimea Platform, a diplomatic initiative set up by Ukraine in August last year aimed at reversing Russia's 2014 annexation of the Black Sea peninsula, reports dpa news agency.

Ukraine is hoping to use the platform's second meeting to gain support for recovering the Crimean Peninsula.

Other prominent leaders joining the online discussions are German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg.

A total of 50 participants from all round the world have been invited.

This is Duda's second visit to Kiev after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February.