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The Summit is organised in cooperation of the parliaments of Sweden and Ukraine. It will be opened by the Speaker of the Riksdag of Sweden Andreas Norlén and the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy will deliver a video address. The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard will also speak at the start of the meeting.
The fourth Summit will highlight the need to restore Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders, and will discuss the impact of the aggression, as well as the crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. At the conclusion of the meeting, the participants plan to adopt a Joint Declaration.
In the framework of the Summit, Hussar will have separate meetings with the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk and the President of the National Council of Switzerland Maja Riniker.
After the Summit, the President of the Riigikogu will leave on a visit to Germany, where he will meet with the President of the German Bundestag Julia Klöckner and the Chairman of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Baltic States Bettina Hagedorn. Hussar will also have a meeting in the German Council on Foreign Relations.
The President of the Riigikogu will be accompanied in Berlin by the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Marko Mihkelson and the member of the Estonia-Germany Parliamentary Friendship Group Raimond Kaljulaid.
Riigikogu Press Service
Karin Kangro
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Link uudisele: Hussar attends Crimea Platform Parliamentary Summit in Stockholm
Source: Parliament of Estonia