The Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall pay official visits to France and Great Britain from June 10 till June 15, 2018
The Paris programme provides for meetings with the President of the French National Assembly Francois de Rugy and the Speaker (President) of the Senate Gerard Larcher. Contacts with co-chairmen of the friendship groups of the Senate and the National Assembly of France are also planned.
From 12 till 15 June, the Chairman A.Parubiy shall be in London and Edinburgh. There will be meetings with Mark Lancaster, Minister of State for the Armed Forces and Alan Duncan, Minister of State for Europe and the Americas at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The Chairperson of the Parliament of Ukraine shall also meet with John Simon Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, with Tom Tugendhat, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, with Lord Fowler, Lord Speaker of the British Parliament, with Julian Murray Lewis, the Chair of the Defence Committee of the House of Commons, with Kenneth D.Macintosh, the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
The delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine headed by A.Parubiy will familiarize with the Scottish Parliament’s work on public relations and visit First Minister’s Questions (weekly questioning) to the First Minister of Scotland.