Zelensky will address Lisbon parliament on April 21

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, will participate by videoconference in a session in Parliament on April 21, parliamentary sources told Lusa on Wednesday.

The date was set this Wednesday at the leadership conference, which is still ongoing.

The session will take place at 3h00 pm and will be attended by the president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

On 7 April, the speaker of parliament, Augusto Santos Silva, said that the head of state of Ukraine accepted to speak to the Portuguese parliament on a date yet to be agreed.

“This morning I received the ambassador of Ukraine in Lisbon [Ihna Ohnivets] who conveyed to me the availability of President Volodymyr Zelensky to participate in a session of parliament. The date will now be set,” the speaker wrote then on his Twitter account.

Last week, at the last meeting of the leaders’ conference, the PAN proposal for a parliamentary session by videoconference with the president of Ukraine was approved by a majority, with the opposition of the Communist party.