European Parliament president visits Kyiv on Europe Day

Ukrainian president hands the Ukrainian state award to European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Ukrainian president hands the Ukrainian state award to European Parliament President Roberta Metsola Copyright Efrem Lukatsky/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.
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European Parliament President Robert Metsola addressed the International Summit of Cities and Regions in Kyiv on Thursday.

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European Parliament President Roberta Metsola visited Kyiv on Europe Day in a continued show of support for the country.

Roberta Metsola spoke at the Second International Summit of Cities and Regions in Ukraine on Thursday.

In her speech, the president spoke about her promise to make Ukraine a fully-fledged member of the EU.

"The European Union and the European Parliament stand ready to help," she said, "We will come back from this together because Ukraine is Europe and Europe is Ukraine."

Over 250 Ukrainian and foreign local community representatives participated in this year's summit.

The summit aims to unite Ukrainian and foreign communities in partnership and support to help establish and guarantee peace and security.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also spoke at the summit, saying, "Putin came to our land just as Hitler came to the lands of other nations." 

"Mutual assistance is about making sure that not only one aggressor loses, but that the very idea of any war in Europe is crushed again," he added.

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