OTTAWA --
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to ship a digital tackle to Canada's Parliament on Tuesday as his nation resists a brutal invasion from Russia.
He isn't the primary worldwide chief to talk to Parliament, and in reality, he's the third Ukrainian president to deal with Canadian MPs and senators. In 2008, Viktor Yushchenko acquired a number of standing ovations as he spoke about his nation's wrestle to claim its sovereignty and its push to hitch the NATO alliance. In 2014, after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, Petro Poroshenko instructed Parliament that Ukraine had "crossed the Rubicon" to a brand new westward-looking future with the signing of a co-operation settlement with the European Union.
Canada has been house to different historic speeches from leaders throughout occasions of disaster. United Kingdom prime minister Winston Churchill delivered an electrifying tackle within the Home of Commons in December 1941, simply weeks after the assault on Pearl Harbor. He first spoke to the American Congress earlier than arriving in Ottawa, the place throngs of individuals gathered on Parliament Hill to listen to his remarks by a loudspeaker. Referencing previous feedback by a French common who had stated that England would have her neck wrung like a rooster, Churchill scoffed, "Some rooster! Some neck!"
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And in 1990, Nelson Mandela, then the deputy president of the African Nationwide Congress and solely not too long ago free of jail after 27 years, appeared in Parliament the place he thanked Canada for supporting the anti-apartheid motion and urged the nation to not elevate commerce sanctions on South Africa. Mandela returned as his nation's president in 1998, when he stated there had been an amazing transformation in South Africa prior to now eight years and it's endlessly indebted to Canada for its assist.
Regardless of Canada's lengthy historical past of internet hosting international leaders in Parliament, Zelensky would be the first to ship his tackle nearly.
Here is a take a look at the international dignitaries who've delivered joint addresses to Canadian senators and MPs:
Dec. 30, 1941: Winston Churchill, prime minister, United Kingdom
June 16, 1943: Madame Chiang Kai-shek, partner of the chief of the Republic of China
June 1, 1944: John C. Curtin, prime minister, Australia
June 30, 1944: Peter Fraser, prime minister, New Zealand
Nov. 19, 1945: Clement R. Attlee, prime minister, United Kingdom
June 11, 1947: Harry S. Truman, president, United States
Oct. 24, 1949: Pandit Jewaharlal Nehru, prime minister, India
Could 31, 1950: Liaquat Ali Khan, prime minister, Pakistan
April 5, 1951: Vincent Auriol, president, French Republic
Nov. 14, 1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower, president, United States
Feb. 6, 1956: Sir Anthony Eden, prime minister, United Kingdom
March 5, 1956: Giovanni Gronchi, president, Republic of Italy
June 5, 1956: Achmed Sukarno, president, Republic of Indonesia
March 4, 1957: Man Mollet, prime minister, French Republic
June 2, 1958: Theodor Heuss, president, Federal Republic of Germany
June 13, 1958: Harold Macmillan, prime minister, United Kingdom
July 9, 1958: Dwight D. Eisenhower, president, United States
July 21, 1958: Kwame Nkrumah, prime minister, Ghana
Could 17, 1961: John F. Kennedy, president, United States
Could 26, 1964: U Thant, secretary-general, United Nations
April 14, 1972: Richard M. Nixon, president, United States
March 30, 1973: Luis Echeverria, president, Mexico
June 19, 1973: Indira Gandhi, prime minister, India
Could 5, 1980: Masayoshi Ohira, prime minister, Japan
Could 26, 1980: José Lopez Portillo, president, Mexico
March 11, 1981: Ronald W. Reagan, president, United States
Sept. 26, 1983: Margaret Thatcher, prime minister, United Kingdom
Jan. 17, 1984: Zhao Ziyang, premier, State Council, Individuals’s Republic of China
Could 8, 1984: Miguel de la Madrid, president, Mexico
March 7, 1985: Javier Perez de Cuellar, secretary-general, United Nations
Jan. 13, 1986: Yasuhiro Nakasone, prime minister, Japan
April 6, 1987: Ronald W. Reagan, president, United States
Could 25, 1987: François Mitterand, president, French Republic
Could 10, 1988: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
June 16, 1988: Helmut Kohl, chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
June 22, 1988: Margaret Thatcher, prime minister, United Kingdom
Feb. 27, 1989: Chaim Herzog, president, State of Israel
Oct. 11, 1989: King Hussein Bin Talal of Jordan
June 18, 1990: Nelson Mandela, deputy president, African Nationwide Congress
April 8, 1991: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president, Mexico
June 19, 1992: Boris Yeltsin, president, Federation of Russia
Feb. 23, 1995: William J. Clinton, president, United States
June 11, 1996: Ernesto Zedillo, president, Mexico
Sept. 24, 1998: Nelson Mandela, president, Republic of South Africa
April 29, 1999: Vaclav Havel, president, Czech Republic
Feb. 22, 2001: Tony Blair, prime minister, United Kingdom
March 9, 2004: Kofi Annan, secretary-general, United Nations
Oct. 25, 2004: Vicente Fox Quesada, president, Mexico
Could 18, 2006: John Howard, prime minister, Australia
Sept. 22, 2006: Hamid Karzaï, president, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Could 26, 2008: Viktor Yushchenko, president, Ukraine
Could 27, 2010: Felipe Calderón, president, Mexico
Sept. 22, 2011: David Cameron, prime minister, United Kingdom
Feb. 27, 2014: The Aga Khan, imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
Sept. 17, 2014: Petro Poroshenko, president, Ukraine
Nov. 3, 2014: François Hollande, president, French Republic
June 29, 2016: Barack H. Obama, president, United States
April 12, 2017: Malala Yousafzai, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed March 15, 2022.
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