Merkel and Tusk began to court Zelensky
German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky, who won the Ukrainian presidential election, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
This was announced on Tuesday by the representative of the German Cabinet of Ministers, Ulrike Demmer.
“The Chancellor emphasized that the federal government will continue to actively assist Ukraine on its reform path, as well as support its right to sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Demmer said in a statement.
Merkel was one of the last among Western leaders to congratulate Vladimir Zelensky on his election victory. Also, before the second round of elections in Ukraine, Merkel, unlike French President Emmanuel Macron, received only the current President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on April 12 in Berlin. German experts then noted that there had never been such a case when the chancellor met with one of the candidates for the highest government post between the first and second rounds.
Today it became known that the head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, had his first telephone conversation with the elected President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and announced his intention to hold a first meeting with him in July at a summit in Brussels, which Tusk wrote about on Twitter.
“The first useful telephone conversation took place with the elected President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. I assured him of Ukraine's strong support. I look forward to fruitful cooperation at the upcoming EU-Ukraine summit in July,” Tusk wrote.
A day earlier, Tusk and the head of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, wrote an open joint letter to Zelensky, in which they promised all possible support, including continued macro-financial assistance, assistance in reforms of the judicial system, the fight against corruption, and transformations in the energy sector. They also promised to continue to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
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