KIEV, March 17 – President Petro Poroshenko met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Brussels on Thursday.

"The parties exchanged the opinions over a wide range of the bilateral issues. The parties discussed the preservation of sanctions against Russia as an efficient tool to ensure a full implementation of the Minsk Agreements and restoration of territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine," reads a report on the president's official website.

Moreover, the parties agreed to stir up a bilateral political dialogue on the highest level. The interlocutors noted an importance of carrying this year next meetings of the Ukrainian-Hungarian inter-governmental commissions for economic cooperation, trans-boundary and border cooperation.