Zelensky latest in long list of world leaders to address Parliament, third Ukrainian president


When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Parliament on Tuesday, he would be the third Ukrainian president to take action, becoming a member of a protracted listing of world leaders and dignitaries to present a joint deal with to Canadian parliamentarians.


The deal with might be a possibility for MPs, senators, and different particular visitors and authorities officers to listen to straight from Zelensky in Ukraine on what that nation is experiencing because it continues to defend itself from assaults ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.


Zelensky has garnered worldwide accolades for his management on this second, and continues to name on allied nations to supply his nation additional help, from army to humanitarian, whereas expressing thanks for the assist supplied so far.


He's not the primary Ukrainian chief to return to Canadian policymakers with related sentiments. His predecessor Petro Poroshenko delivered an deal with to Parliament on Sept. 17, 2014 as a part of an official go to to Canada.


In that speech—punctuated by cheers and standing ovations—Poroshenko praised Canada for its assist within the face of Russia’s army incursion in japanese Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea, and mentioned that his nation was “bleeding for its independence and its territorial integrity.”


Earlier to that, on Might 26, 2008 as a part of a state go to, then-president Victor Yushchenko spoke about how democracy had “taken over” as the previous Soviet republic pushed to claim independence following the Orange Revolution of 2004. He additionally expressed his gratitude for Canada supporting that nation’s ongoing bid for NATO membership.


“Proper now, I'm overwhelmed with profound, honest, completely light-filled emotions towards your nation, in the direction of this land. For me, like hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, this nation, this land is sacred,” Yushchenko mentioned.


Zelensky’s deal with is not going to be preceded by the identical diploma of pomp and circumstance, together with the on-arrival greeting by Home and Senate officers, and the stroll by way of Confederation Corridor with the prime minister, given he would be the first world chief to seem just about.


He’ll be the primary to make his remarks contained in the short-term West Block Home of Commons, with the final world chief to talk to members of the Home and Senate being Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte in 2018, which befell within the now under-renovation Centre Block.

Right here’s the full listing of dignitaries who've delivered a joint deal with to Parliament since Nineteen Forties:


  • December 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

  • November 19, 1945: Clement R. Attlee, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

  • June 11, 1947: Harry S. Truman, President, United States

  • October 24, 1949: Pandit Jewaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, India

  • Might 31, 1950: Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister, Pakistan

  • April 5, 1951: Vincent Auriol, President, French Republic

  • November 14, 1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower, President, United States

  • February 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

  • Might 17, 1961: John F. Kennedy, President, United States

  • Might 26, 1964: U Thant, Secretary-Basic, 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

  • Might 5, 1980: Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister, Japan

  • Might 26, 1980: José Lopez Portillo, President, Mexico

  • March 11, 1981: Ronald W. Reagan, President, United States

  • September 26, 1983: Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

  • January 17, 1984: Zhao Ziyang, Premier, State Council, Individuals’s Republic of China

  • Might 8, 1984: Miguel de la Madrid, President, Mexico

  • March 7, 1985: Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-Basic, United Nations

  • January 13, 1986: Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister, Japan

  • April 6, 1987: Ronald W. Reagan, President, United States

  • Might 25, 1987: François Mitterand, President, French Republic

  • Might 10, 1988: Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

  • June 16, 1988: Helmut Kohl, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany

  • June 22, 1988: Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

  • February 27, 1989: Chaim Herzog, President, State of Israel

  • October 11, 1989: His Majesty King Hussein Bin Talal, Hashemite Kingdom 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

  • February 23, 1995: William J. Clinton, President, United States

  • June 11, 1996: Ernesto Zedillo, President, Mexico

  • September 24, 1998: Nelson Mandela, President, Republic of South Africa

  • April 29, 1999: Vaclav Havel, President, Czech Republic

  • February 22, 2001: Tony Blair, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

  • March 9, 2004: Kofi Annan, Secretary-Basic, United Nations

  • October 25, 2004: Vicente Fox Quesada, President, Mexico

  • Might 18, 2006: John Howard, Prime Minister, Australia

  • September 22, 2006: Hamid Karzaï, President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

  • Might 26, 2008: Victor Yushchenko, President, Ukraine

  • Might 27, 2010: Felipe Calderón, President, Mexico

  • September 22, 2011: David Cameron, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

  • February 27, 2014: His Highness the Aga Khan, forty ninth Hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims

  • September 17, 2014: Petro Poroshenko, President, Ukraine

  • November 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

  • October 25, 2018: Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

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