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Zelensky will be received by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Luís Montenegro

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, will be received today at Figo Maduro airport by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, according to the program released by the office of the Head of Government.

Zelensky will be received by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Luís Montenegro
Notícias ao Minuto

14:42 - 28/05/24 por Lusa

País Ucrânia/Rússia

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces will also be at the reception for the Ukrainian president.

The President of Ukraine will pay a visit to Portugal this afternoon, where he will be received by the Head of State and the Prime Minister and will sign a ten-year bilateral cooperation agreement.

According to a note released on Monday by the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic and the Prime Minister's office, this is a "working visit" with the aim of "deepening the excellent relations between the two states, with a particular focus on strengthening cooperation in the field of security and defense".

Volodymyr Zelensky, who arrives in Portugal after a visit to Spain and Belgium, will first have a meeting at the official residence of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, where a bilateral agreement will be signed, and will then be received by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Palácio de Belém.

According to the same note released by the Palácio de Belém and São Bento, this visit by Zelensky "will also be an opportunity to reiterate Portugal's commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, as well as to maintaining political, military, financial and humanitarian support to Kiev".

Speaking to journalists in Brussels, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the bilateral agreement to be signed during this visit by Zelensky covers all areas of cooperation between the two countries in the last two years: "humanitarian, financial, military and political assistance".

"It includes all the dimensions in which we have worked, but in a systematic way, and with a ten-year horizon", added Paulo Rangel.

This bilateral agreement began to be planned after the last summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in July last year, in Vilnius (Lithuania), still with the previous Government, and includes all Portuguese intervention with the Ukrainian authorities since the beginning of the Russian invasion, on February 24, 2022.

[News updated at 15h12]

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