KYIV. Aug 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko intends to call on European Union countries to take efforts to restore certain populated localities in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions under their patronage.
"Ukrainian ambassadors will be tackling several highly important matters, namely the mobilization of resources around the world to rebuild the infrastructure of Donbas," Poroshenko said in Avdiivka in the Donetsk region on Sunday.
The money that will be raised will help fund, among other projects, the construction of roads in Donbas, he said.
The Ukrainian leadership and its diplomatic representatives will do their best to persuade "each country of the European Union to assume responsibility for the restoration of a concrete populated locality of Donbas - in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the president said.
Poroshenko said that the heads of Ukraine's diplomatic missions to a number of countries had also arrived in Avdiivka on Sunday. The Ukrainian president said that he was going to discuss this issue with them.
"We have already several times discussed with the leaders of the European Union a program under which individual countries will take certain towns and villages of Donbas under their patronage," he said.
For example, "let Germany take on responsibility for Kramatorsk, Greece for Mariupol, the United Kingdom for Volnovakha, and other countries for Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, and Avdiivka," Poroshenko suggested.
Such patronage will act as a good symbol of the fact that "if people invest in the restoration of normal life in Donbas, they will understand the level of problems that we are facing today," he said.
"And I am convinced that we ought to organize this work immediately," he said.