At the beginning of his opening address at the 9th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, Andriy Parubiy echoed congratulations on the occasion of the Polish independence centenary and reminded that presently "all of our three countries celebrate their 100th anniversaries of independence declarations".

The Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament upheld his colleague S. Karchevsky’s viewpoint that “if we would look through the prism of our great ancestors, lots of today’s problems could be solved and assessed much easier”.

Recalling the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of Ukrainian statehood, Andriy Parubiy noted that "the enemy has not changed, there is only alteration in its names: Tsarist Russia, the Grand Principality of Moscow, the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire". "For hundreds of years the same enemy has been trying, sometimes successfully, to destroy our statehood," he stressed.

According to the Chairman, we are responsible today not only before our contemporaries, but also before our predecessors - those who fought for our statehood - "because we have the same challenge as then".  "And for Ukraine, this is not just a theoretical challenge: every day on the front line our fighters oppose the same Russian Empire," stated A.Parubiy.

The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairman informed those present that on Friday, November 9, he made his visit to the Donetsk oblast (region) together with the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Rasa Jukneviciene. "It was a great honour for me to be on the front line, on the very line of demarcation, with the President of the NATO PA Mrs. Rasa, the great daughter of the Lithuanian people, who has showed in this position a great solidarity with Ukraine,” he said, having then added: “It was a great sign and symbol of what we stand solidly together in this fight".

“Initiatives of the Inter-parliamentary assembly of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine are much wider than mere cooperation between our states,” underlined Andriy Parubiy.

He then reminded of the results of previous meetings of the assembly, in particular regarding the allocation of economic aid to Ukraine – the European plan for Ukraine for 2017-2020 known also as “The Marshall Plan for Ukraine" and the joint letter of seven heads of parliaments about the danger of the Nord Stream 2 project.

A.Parubiy also expressed confidence in the need to find common ground, form a common position on the challenges the three countries are facing. Among the issues of high importance, according to A. Parubiy, there are energy security and development of common strategies in the sphere of information protection, humanitarian ambit as well as cyber-security.

"I am very sure that this platform between our three countries should have a much broader resonance and influence upon events in the world and in our region as well," said A. Parubiy. He also expressed his confidence that "this phase of our joint activity shall have important and successful after-effects in future".

Touching upon further development of cooperation within the assembly, Andriy Parubiy voiced out a recommendation that the next meeting of the triple assembly, scheduled to be held in Ukraine, embrace not only these three countries. It is highly advisable to invite guests - "members of the Baltic Assembly, Estonia and Latvia, as well as members of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Ukraine-Moldova-Georgia, the Baltic-Black Sea region - all the countries from the Baltic-to-Black Sea stretch, which border Russia and which as no one know, feel and understand the threat Russia poses".

 

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