The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, will pay an official visit to Spain in the coming days, and a visit to the House of Representatives is already scheduled for next Tuesday, the 18th, parliamentary sources informed EFE.
So far, the exact date of the Ukrainian president’s trip has not been revealed for security reasons, but the visit to Congress has already been confirmed, where he will be received by the Speaker of the House, Francina Armengol, and the President of the Senate, Pedro Roland. The same sources indicated that he would meet them in the Hall of the Lost Steps in the Palace of the Cortes.
Zelensky is thus resuming a trip to Spain that had to be canceled in April this year so that the Ukrainian leader could attend the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican. The President of Ukraine will be in Paris on Monday, where he will be received by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron – with whom he will discuss the security guarantees that Kiev’s allies could offer if a ceasefire with Russia is reached – and from there he will travel to Madrid.
While the full agenda for this trip to Spain has not been revealed, it is possible that Zelensky will go to the Reina Sofia National Art Center Museum to see… Guernica By Picasso, the artwork that became a global symbol of rejection of war. The Ukrainian president was in Spain in 2022, when he delivered a speech before the Cortes in which he specifically referred to the bombing of the Basque city by German forces during the civil war to compare it to the situation in his country, which was attacked by Russia.
He said at the time: “We are in April 2022, but it seems that we are in April 1937.” The Spanish government will use its presence to convey its full support and the need to maintain pressure on Russia, as government sources recently announced.
On October 21, Zelensky, in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, agreed to a new meeting between the two, which Moncloa had not yet announced. In that conversation, the Ukrainian president thanked Spain for sending 70 generators to support the rebuilding of the country’s energy system in the face of ongoing Russian bombing.
Sanchez explained in a message on
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