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After his speech on Thursday at Bundestag in front of the German elected representatives, then israeli parliament On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address Wednesday at 3 p.m. live by video to French deputies and senators. “The war situation affecting the Ukrainian people concerns all the peoples of Europe, and their parliamentary assemblies”, underlined the National Assembly.
It is “in line with its action” that the National Assembly, chaired by Richard Ferrand (LREM), will welcome the President of the Republic of Ukraine” on Wednesday in the hemicycle, by video interposed.
The Senate will not be outdone. The Ukrainian president “will speak simultaneously before the two chambers at 3 p.m.”, was completed in the entourage of the president of the Luxembourg palace, Gérard Larcher (LR).
On February 25, the day after the outbreak of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, a message from Emmanuel Macron was read before the Assembly and the Senate, according to the rare procedure of article 18 paragraph 1 of the Constitution. A reading that had drawn criticism a month and a half before the presidential election. Then on March 1 a debate was organized after a government statement. The Assembly’s Defense Committee also conducted hearings, despite the pause in legislative work before the vote on 10 and 24 April.
Before the Bundestag, the Ukrainian president had already addressed by video link to MEPs on March 1, then before the British parliament, Canadian parliamentarians, the American Congress.
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Volodymyr Zelensky implored Westerners on Thursday to help “stop this war”, after three weeks of an offensive by Moscow which gives no sign of respite despite the continuation of talks.
NATO is organizing an extraordinary summit next Thursday devoted to the war in Ukraine, which will be attended by US President Joe Biden, who will travel to Brussels. A meeting of EU heads of state and government will also be held in Brussels on Thursday, in the presence of the American president. A G7 meeting is also scheduled.