Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini began a 4-day mission that will take her first to Kiev and then to Moscow, her first since undertaking the presidency of the Council of the European Union on July 1st. Minister Mogherini is scheduled to meet in Kiev with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the following day with Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
The minister will travel to Moscow on Wednesday 9 July, where she is to meet with her Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov.