KIEV, Oct. 7 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday traveled to Paris for a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy amid growing international concerns that Ukraine may try to re-privatize ArcelorMittal’s largest Ukrainian steelmaker.

The visit was not announced by the Yanukovych administration, and the meeting with Sarkozy lasted one hour, which is less than the 1.5 hours that had been originally planned, according to report in Ukrayinska Pravda.