NATO Ambassadors to Visit Ukraine

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At the invitation of the Ukrainian authorities, the North Atlantic Council (NAC) will visit Ukraine on October 30 and 31, 2019. This was reported by NATO.

The visit will start in Odesa on October 30, where the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the NATO Ambassadors will visit the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG2). Four NATO Mine Countermeasures Vessels from Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and Spain will be docked in the port of Odesa, as part of their patrolling in the Black Sea.

The Secretary General will also deliver a speech to cadets at the Maritime Academy in Odesa.

On October 31, in Kyiv, the NATO Secretary General will chair a meeting of the NATO – Ukraine Commission with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and will deliver an address at the Parliament of Ukraine.

The Secretary General and the NATO Permanent Representatives will meet the Chair of the Rada, Dmytro Razumkov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vadym Prystaiko and the Minister of Defense, Andriy Zahorodniuk.

The Deputy Secretary General, Mircea Geoana, and the NATO Ambassadors will meet the Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine, Dmytro Razumkov and Heads of Parliamentary factions. They will also have a social lunch with the Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Dmytro Kuleba.

Outreach activities will be organized, during which NATO Ambassadors will engage with members of the civil society.