Ukraine will for the first time host a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2020, according to First Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and Ukraine's envoy in the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup Iryna Gerashchenko.
"I've just got a text message from chairperson of our parliamentary delegation to the NATO PA Iryna Friz with an important and wonderful piece of news: a NATO Parliamentary Assembly session will be held in Ukraine for the first time in 2020," Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook on Sunday, October 8.
"Our delegation to the NATO PA has done a good job in Bucharest where this decision has been taken today," she said.
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Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy was earlier reported to have asked President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paolo Alli to consider the possibility of holding one of the next events in Kyiv.