President of Spain’s Congress of Deputies plans to visit Ukraine

Ana María Pastor Julián, the President of the Congress of Deputies (the lower house of Spain's Cortes Generales), plans to visit Ukraine in the second half of 2018.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said this to journalists within the framework of his official visit to Spain, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"I am grateful to the President for the absolutely firm and consistent support for Ukraine. We agreed to initiate the inter-parliamentary groups’ activities. I invited the President to visit Ukraine, we agreed that this would happen in the second half of the year," Poroshenko said.

Poroshenko noted that the issue of recognizing the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide of the Ukrainian people and a number of other issues of bilateral and international cooperation had been discussed.

As reported, President Poroshenko makes a working visit to Spain on June 2-4. It is the first visit of the President of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Spain over past 22 years.

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