The President of the Assembly of the Republic will make an official visit to Ukraine this Tuesday and Wednesday, accompanied by delegates from the PS, PSD, IL and BE banks, but not from Chega or PCP.
“The President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, accompanied by a parliamentary delegation, is paying an official visit to Ukraine today and tomorrow, at the invitation of his counterpart Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada , the legislature of the country”his office said on Tuesday.
The program of the visit, in Kiev, “includes institutional meetings at the highest level, namely with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, with the Speaker of the Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, and with the Prime Minister, Denys Shmygal”.
“A meeting is also planned with students of Portuguese from the Department of Philology at Kiev University”adds the note.
The Office of the President of the Assembly of the Republic also informs that Santos Silva will be accompanied on this visit by a parliamentary delegation composed of deputies Eurico Brilhante Dias, from the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party, Jorge Paulo de Oliveira, from the parliamentary Group of the Social Democratic Party, João Cotrim de Figueiredo, from the Liberal Initiative Parliamentary Group, and Isabel Pires, from the Left Block Parliamentary Group.
Last week, the president of the Assembly of the Republic announced that he had banned Chega, the third largest party, from delegations visiting foreign parliaments following the incident at the welcome session for Lula da Silva on April 25.
Source: DN
