Tomorrow, Thursday, the President of Ukraine will deliver an online speech to the German Parliament. Next item on the agenda is the bill on compulsory vaccination.
The information has been circulating for days, late last night it was confirmed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the German Parliament online, as he has already done in many other parliaments, tomorrow Thursday, 17.03, at 09.00 in the morning. The speech will be broadcast live and is expected to last a total of 20 minutes. Immediately after, the legislature will move on to the first item on the agenda, the discussion of the bill on compulsory vaccination, which is expected to be approved probably by May.
“Completely inappropriate”
This abrupt transition to the rule of law in a time of war in the heart of Europe and after a highly emotional, as expected, Zelenski speech disturbs and causes friction between the government and the opposition. First to the chairman and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU / CSU) Friedrich Mertz, who described as “completely inappropriate” the fact that the parliamentary groups of the ruling coalition refused after the end of Zelenski’s speech to discuss the government’s policy. on the Ukrainian issue. “Christian Union parties expect Chancellor Soltz to respond with programmatic statements after the speech and to inform about last week’s summit,” he said.
The leader of the Bavarian Christian Socialist Party (CSU), Alexander Dobrid, called it a “direct move to the agenda following an internet connection to a war-torn region and with moving words from the Ukrainian president.” He, in turn, demanded that Chancellor Soltz make programmatic statements. It should be noted, of course, that a plenary briefing on the situation in Ukraine was scheduled for noon today.
“We are asking for Salts program statements”
Andriy Melnik, Ukraine’s ambassador to Berlin, was the most vocal critic. Even before the war broke out in his home country, Melnik, aiding and abetting German, made endless interventions, either by giving interviews or as a guest speaker on German television, with the common denominator being sharp criticism of government decisions and attitudes. coalition in Berlin. In almost all of his statements he is accusatory, going beyond the usual role of a diplomat. Speaking to the German news agency DPA, he also asked Chancellor Soltz, after the message from Zelensky, to make program statements. “The Social Democrat politician should say exactly what the ruling coalition intends to do to actively support Ukraine with concrete measures and end the Russian war of extermination (of Ukraine),” he said, citing the completion of 3 weeks from the start of the war.
The Ukrainian ambassador reiterated that as assistance means the supply of other weapons, but also massive financial support to the Ukrainian government and war refugees. “A lot has been done since the chancellor’s first programmatic statements about the war, so a new clear statement would be very important for us Ukrainians, but certainly for the Germans as well.” In any case, Zelensky’s speech is expected with great interest, because in his message today he described the level of negotiations with Russia as “more realistic”. Like the previous time, when Chancellor Soltz announced a massive modernization of the German armed forces, amounting to 100 billion euros, Melnik will once again sit in the gallery of the officials of the German Parliament.
Irini Anastassopoulou
Source: Deutsche Welle
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