Kyiv hopes for conference next month on joint Ukraine-US arms production

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks at weapons while he tours a State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Detached Commandant Office of Security and Resource Supply site in the Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, September 7, 2023. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Pool via REUTERS/File photo

(Reuters) - Ukraine's presidential chief of staff said he hoped a conference on joint Ukrainian-U.S. weapons production would be held in December in the United States, Kyiv's most important supplier of military assistance.

"There was a very important agreement between president Zelenskiy and president Biden," Andriy Yermak said. "Next month, I hope, a conference will be held in the United States dedicated to joint (weapons) production of Ukraine and the United States."