The UN Security Council will hold open debates on the protection of critical infrastructures chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin in New York (U.S.) on February 13.

"On February 13, open debates of the UN Security Council, chaired by Klimkin, regarding critical infrastructure protection against terrorist threats, will take place," the Foreign Ministry said on Twitter, released on Monday afternoon.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said that the debates will take place at 17:00, Kyiv time.

As reported earlier, Klimkin said he expects to meet with the U.S. President Donald Trump's administration in February.

Next month [in February] I will be there since we are chairing the [UN] Security Council and we'll have two important ministerial meetings on infrastructure threats and conflicts in the European space. I will be meeting there with representatives of the American administration," Klimkin told reporters.

On February 9, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he will visit the U.S. the near future, and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin will hold talks on the preparation of this visit in Washington.

"We have agreed [in a telephone conversation with President of the U.S. Donald Trump], that my visit will take place to the U.S. in the near future. We have also agreed that Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin will visit Washington and conduct the necessary negotiations about it for the technical preparation of this visit," Poroshenko said during a joint briefing with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Kyiv on Thursday.

Ukraine has started to chair the Security Council of the United Nations since February 1. It is planned that the protection of critical infrastructure issue will be considered under the presidency of Ukraine on February 13. The settlement of conflicts in Europe will be considered on February 21.