KIEV, Sept. 20 - President Petro Poroshenko and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have discussed the prospects for implementation of projects in energy, infrastructure and ecology, as well as the preparation to hold the Year of Japan in Ukraine in 2017 at their meeting in the United States.

"The leaders of the two countries have discussed the pace of implementing the agreements reached during the Ukrainian president's official visit to Japan in April of this year. It was found important to speed up the joint work to determine the large-scale projects in Ukraine in the area of energy security, infrastructure and ecology in order to attract Japanese companies and investors," the Ukrainian presidential press service reported, following the meeting.