Zelenskyy to give speech in Bundestag next week
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will visit Germany next week. A conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine will be held in Berlin on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Source: German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Details: On Tuesday, Zelenskyy will travel to Berlin, where he is expected to deliver a speech in the Bundestag.
The conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine, organised by the German Federal Foreign Office, will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung emphasised that while this is not Zelenskyy's first visit to Berlin since the war began, it will be the first time he personally addresses the Bundestag. The German MPs will have to convene for a special session for this.
Background:
- On 6 June, President Zelenskyy and his wife Olena arrived at Omaha Beach for the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day in Normandy.
- On 7 June, Zelenskyy is expected to visit Paris.
- Zelenskyy will also meet with Sébastien Lecornu, French Minister of the Armed Forces, and they will visit the facilities of the KNDS defence group near Paris, where artillery ammunition is manufactured.
- The visit programme also includes an address by Zelenskyy to the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, and talks with its president, Yaël Braun-Pivet, who visited Ukraine in March.
- Zelenskyy will attend the G7 conference in Italy from 13 to 15 June.
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