Ukrainian Parliament Speaker thanks counterparts, including Georgian official, for visiting Ukraine
Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Ukrainian Parliament Speaker, on Friday thanked speakers of parliaments of foreign countries, including his Georgian counterpart, who have visited Ukraine to express their support in the face of Russian aggression. Photo: Ukrainian Parliament
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Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Ukrainian Parliament Speaker, on Friday thanked speakers of parliaments of foreign countries, including his Georgian counterpart, who have visited Ukraine to express their support in the face of Russian aggression.
Stefanchuk said the Ukrainian Parliament was “actively working” in parliamentary diplomacy to gain support of parliamentarians from around the world and encourage them to take action following the invasion of the country by Russian forces in February.
Thanks to these efforts, the Speakers of the Parliaments of Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Romania, Northern Macedonia and Switzerland, as well as representatives of parliaments from different countries have already visited Ukraine to express their support and solidarity. The Ukrainian Parliament is grateful to those who stand side by side with Ukraine,” he said.
On April 16, the Georgian Parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Shalva Papuashvili visited Ukraine.
The Ukrainian city of Bucha and the town of Irpin tell the story of “heroes fighting for freedom”, Archil Talakvadze, the Georgian Parliament Vice Speaker, tweeted on Tuesday following a visit of a Georgian Parliamentary delegation to Ukraine over the weekend.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday thanked diplomatic missions of foreign countries in Kyiv, including the Embassy of Georgia, for their support to the country in the wake of the Russian invasion.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, along with the parliamentary delegation of Georgia, met with Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chair Ruslan Stefanchuk and denounced Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine on an official visit to the country on Saturday.
The Georgian parliamentary delegation, led by Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, arrived in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
The Georgian MPs departed for Ukraine on Friday and will meet with their Ukrainian counterparts on Saturday.
Providing military assistance to Ukraine and opening a second front in Georgia in the war are the two questions the Georgian Government cannot be expected to take part in, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said on Thursday in an interview with the Georgian Public Broadcaster.
Ukrainian citizens have named Georgia among the top four countries supporting the country in its defence against the ongoing Russian invasion in a survey, Yuliya Ovchinnikova, an MP from the Verkhovna Rada, told the Georgian news agency Interpressnews on Friday.