Zelensky Invited to put on His Best Green T-Shirt and Address NZ Parliament
November 22, 2022
PHOTO: AFP
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has been invited to address New Zealand’s Parliament.
RNZ understands arrangements are being made for Zelensky to speak via video link to MPs.
Zelensky has spoken to many parliaments around the world since the start of the Russian invasion in February, appealing for more help in Ukraine’s war against Russia.
He would become just the second head of a foreign government to address New Zealand’s Parliament.
The first was Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard who spoke in the debating chamber about the trans-Tasman relationship in 2011.
A date for Zelensky’s address has not yet been set, but it is understood it won’t be this week.