President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will pay a working visit to Malta on March 29-30, where he will address the European People's Party (EPP) summit, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Kostiantyn Yeliseyev has said.

"The president is scheduled to pay a working visit to Malta for participation in the Congress and an expanded summit of the heads of state and government of the European People's Party on March 29-30. It is planned that our president will speak at the session of the Congress of the European People's Party," Yeliseyev said in an interview with the 'Today' newspaper.

According to him, this is a platform for an opportunity to talk about the priorities of domestic reforms, as well as about the challenges that Ukraine faces in the context of Russian aggression in Donbas and the temporary occupation of Crimea.

"Of course, the president will have about a dozen bilateral meetings with EU leaders and the leaders of its member countries," he said.

As earlier reported, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and President of the European Council Donald Tusk would hold a meeting within the summit of the European People's Party (EPP) in Malta on March 30.

According to the weekly schedule of Tusk, posted on the official website of the European Council, a bilateral meeting with Poroshenko will take place at the EPP summit in Malta at 10:45 (local time) on Thursday, March 30.