KIEV, June 14 – Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko has held talks with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini as part of a meeting of foreign ministers of the Central European Initiative (CEI) in Trieste, Italy, on June 10, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.

At the beginning of the meeting, Hryschenko thanked the Italian government for its decision to allocate EUR 26 million for the implementation of Chornobyl projects, which was announced by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.