Head of Verkhovna Rada Committee for Foreign Affairs Hanna Hopko, Committee First Deputy Head Ivanna Klympush-Tsyntsadze meet with First Resident Ambassador of Australia to Ukraine Doug Trappett

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
09 April 2015, 16:24

At the meeting, the parties discussed development of bilateral relations and prospects of cooperation between the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Parliament of Australia.

Doug Trappett noted that the major goal of opening of the Australia’s diplomatic institution in Ukraine is the deepening of cooperation and intensification of interparliamentary dialogue between Australia and Ukraine.

Ukraine thanked Trappett for Australia’s support to sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and expressed hope that Australia will continue supporting sovereignty, territorial integrity and democratic future of Ukraine, inter alia, in the United Nations, OSCE, and other international institutions.

The parties also discussed the issue of organization of possible meeting of Committee members and members of deputy group of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for interparliamentary relations with Australia with member of the Australian House of Representatives Michael Danby during his stay in Kyiv preliminarily scheduled for April 24, 2015.