Speakers of EU parliaments take part in special meeting of Verkhovna Rada

Speakers of the parliaments of the European Union member countries took part in a special session of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) on Saturday, 25 November.

Source: European Pravda; Iryna Herashchenko, MP from the European Solidarity party on Telegram

Herashchenko reported that Chairman of the Belgian Senate Stephanie Doz, Chairman of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil and chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Speaker of the Finnish parliament Jussi Halla-aho, Speaker of the Irish parliament Jerry Buttimer, president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Michał Szczerba, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian parliament Marko Mihkelson and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Sejm Paweł Kowal spoke in the Verkhovna Rada today.

Herashchenko added that the speaker of the Finnish parliament "impressed [us] with his wonderful Ukrainian language."

In Ukraine, on 25 November is the Holodomor Victims' Memorial Day. (The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine that lasted from 1932 to 1933 and claimed the lives of millions of Ukrainians – ed.)

Herashchenko recalled that 17 countries of the world recognised the Holodomor as genocide.

"Our partners and friends are aware of the clear parallels between the Holodomor crime organised by Stalin's regime and the current destruction of Ukraine by Putin's regime," Iryna Herashchenko stressed.

Earlier, a number of leaders and ambassadors of European countries honoured the memory of millions of victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

Yesterday, it was reported that 55 UN member states and the EU delegation signed an initiative initiated by Ukraine, the UN declaration on the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

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