5 Prime Ministers, 1 Chancellor, 1 Deputy Prime Minister, 3 Foreign Ministers, President Of EC Visited Ukraine. All EU Members; 6 NATO Members. Missing? U.S. Secretary Of State, NATO Secretary General
The Russian Federation Commenced Its Attack Upon Ukraine On 24 February 2022.
Since 15 March 2022, Five Prime Ministers, One Chancellor, One Deputy Prime Minister, Three Foreign Ministers, President Of European Commission (EC), President Of European Parliament Have Visited Ukraine. All Are Members Of The European Union (EU); Six Are Members Of NATO.
Ambassadors To Ukraine From Lithuania, Turkey Have Returned To Kyiv. Estonia Soon.
Who’s Missing? U.S. Secretary Of State Antony Blinken And Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General Of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
For U.S. Secretary Of State Blinken, A Visit To Kyiv Seems Like A Hot Stove- Avoid Touching.
NATO has thirty members. “In 1949, there were 12 founding members of the Alliance: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The other member countries are: Greece and Turkey (1952), Germany (1955), Spain (1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017) and North Macedonia (2020).”
10 April 2022
Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Boris Johnson (NATO)
Prime Minister Johnson traveled by train to Kyiv.
9 April 2022 (Kyiv)
Chancellor of Republic of Austria, Karl Nehammer (EU)
7 April 2022 (Kyiv)
President of the Brussels, Belgium-based European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen. The President of the EC is “appointed by national leaders and elected by the 705-member European Parliament (EP).” The EC is composed of the College of Commissioners of the twenty-seven members of the European Union (EU): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the EC, Josep Borrell Fontelles
Prime Minister of Slovak Republic, Eduard Heger (EU, NATO)
EURACTIV.SK: “In March, Heger received an invitation to join Czech Prime Minister Peter Fiala, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša on a trip to Kyiv. However, after consulting with defence minister Jaroslav Naď and security forces, he decided not to go. Later, he went back on his decision, apologised for having turned down the offer and said he would go if given another chance. “I considered it only briefly because the events happened quickly. I probably didn’t quite appreciate the opportunity,” he said. According to EURACTIV Slovakia, Heger personally asked von der Leyen if he could join her on her trip together with Borrell. Austrian Prime Minister Karl Nehammer is also set to join the delegation. Whether Heger will offer Ukraine new Slovak aid is not yet known. Since the invasion, Slovakia has supported the Ukrainian government with weapons, ammunition, fuel, and humanitarian aid. Heger, as well as President Zuzana Čaputová, are in regular contact with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine is interested in the Slovak S-300 anti-missile system. However, it currently seems unlikely Slovakia will hand it over to Ukraine since it still has not found a permanent replacement for the system. Negotiations continue with the United States about the purchase – with a significant discount – of the American Patriot system.”
President von der Leyen, High Representative Borrell, and Prime Minister Heger traveled by train from Belgium to Poland to Kyiv, Ukraine.
3 April 2022 (Odesa)
Minister Of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Nikoloas Dendias (EU, NATO)
Reuters: “Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arrived in Odesa on Sunday at the head of a humanitarian aid mission into the southern port city of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said. The humanitarian aid was handed to the city's municipal authorities. Dendias, 62, also aims to set up a continuous mechanism of distributing aid from Greece and to reopen the country's consulate in the city. "The reopening of (Greece's) consulate will help distribute humanitarian aid and set up corridors for the Greek ethnic community to leave from any areas of Ukraine, if needed, via Odesa," the minister said after upon his arrival in Odesa, according to a statement from the Greek foreign ministry.”
Minister Dendias traveled by aircraft from Athens, Greece, to Chisinau International Airport in Moldova and then by vehicle crossed the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, bound for Odessa.
1 April 2022 (Kyiv)
President of the Strasbourg, France-based European Parliament (EP), Roberta Metsola, visited Kyiv.
President Metsola traveled by train from Belgium to Poland to Kyiv, Ukraine.
17 March 2022 (Lviv)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu (NATO)
MFA: “After his visit to the Russian Federation, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid a visit to Ukraine and met with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Lviv on 17 March 2022. Following the meeting a joint press conference was held. Minister Çavuşoğlu underlined that we expressed once again our support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and that our efforts to end this war and achieve a lasting ceasefire would continue. Later, Minister Çavuşoğlu met with our kinsmen at the Crimean Tatar Coordination Center in Lviv, and stressed that our support for the safety and well-being of our kinsmen would continue.”
15 March 2022 (Kyiv)
Prime Minister of Czech Republic, Petr Fiala (EU, NATO)
Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki (EU, NATO)
Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Jansa (EU, NATO)
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Jaroslaw Kaczynski (EU, NATO)
The delegation rode a train from Poland to Lviv, Ukraine, and onto Kyiv, Ukraine.
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