11 February 2011
Mrs Irena
Degutienė, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Mr Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, on the way back to Lithuania from her official visit to Azerbaijan.
At the meeting,
Mrs Degutienė and Mr Lytvyn signed a joint letter to Mr Jerzy Buzek, President
of the European Parliament, with a proposal to hold an extraordinary meeting
of the Presidium of the trilateral Parliamentary Assembly of Lithuania, Poland,
and Ukraine in Strasbourg
on 10-12 May 2011. Not only the Speakers of the three parliaments
but also the President and Members of the European Parliament would attend the
meeting.
The letter had
been earlier signed by Mr Bogdan
Borusewicz, Marshal of the Polish Senate. The meeting is expected to
bring Ukraine
even closer to the European Union and allow its more active involvement in EU
affairs.
Secretariat of
the Speaker of the Seimas
Juozas Ruzgys,
Adviser to the Speaker of the Seimas, tel. +370 239 6023; +370 698 42073
