Salome Zurabishvili will attend Ukrainian President-elect’s inauguration
Salome Zurabishvili will attend inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky on May 20. Photo: President's press office
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili will attend the inauguration of Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday.
The Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament, has set the inauguration date for May 20, Ukrainian media reported.
Zurabishvili’s administration has confirmed to the Georgian Public Broadcaster that she will be among the guests to attend Zelensky's inauguration.
NATO Foreign Ministers have agreed on a package of measures to improve the Alliance’s situational awareness in the Black Sea region and strengthen support for its partners – Georgia and Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government has imposed sanctions on the de facto officials of Georgia’s two occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali, who visited the country’s rebel-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine in November 2018 to observe the so-called leadership elections.
Georgia reaffirms “strong and unequivocal support” for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders, and condemns “the illegal referendum” conducted in Crimea five years ago.
Ukrainian comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky, who has defeated incumbent Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine’s presidential elections with 73 per cent of the total vote, received 50.38 per cent of votes in the polling station opened in Tbilisi at the Ukrainian embassy.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili attended the inauguration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv yesterday, stating during a face-to-face meeting that Georgia and Ukraine should merge forces for their Euro-Atlantic integration, the Ukrainian president’s press office reports.