Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has said he hopes to meet with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in person, and not through a glass partition.

"We're seeking a format for our meeting. In my correspondence [with Tymoshenko] we discuss various options, but the authorities still don't let us meet in person. And meeting through a glass partition has no sense. We have the same effect writing letters," Lutsenko told journalists in Kharkiv on Wednesday.

He said that he realizes that prison employees will be present at their short-term meeting anyway.

"I don't care who will be present, I can evade prison employees. That's not the problem. The problem is that I need to contact the person directly, eye to eye, hand in hand. Of course I realize that before that they will search me, they will record it [the meeting], listen to it, still I would like to meet with the person, talk to her about ordinary and political issues. We are now thinking how to do this. It would be the best, however, to do this in freedom. I am eager to meet with Yulia Volodymyrivna at a good café," Lutsenko said.

As reported, on April 12, 2013, Lutsenko along with leader of the Batkivschyna faction Arseniy Yatseniuk, MP Oleksandr Turchynov, MP Andriy Kozhemiakin and others arrived at Central Clinical Hospital No.5 for a short meeting with Tymoshenko.

The meeting, however, was cancelled as, according to Chief of Kachanivska Penal Colony Ihor Kolpaschykov, Tymoshenko refused to walk to a special room for short meetings.