MINSK, August 26. /ITAR-TASS/. President Petro Poroshenko hopes a Tuesday’s meeting in the Belarusian capital of Minsk will result in a deal for peace on Ukrainian soil.

“I sincerely hope that the meeting will result in peace and we will succeed to attain an agreement which will bring peace to Ukrainian land,” Poroshenko said at a meeting with Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Tuesday.

“For the first time we succeeded to have a unique format of talks,” Poroshenko added.