Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada called on Norway to recognize the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy, during a meeting with the President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), Olemic Thommessen, called for the recognition of the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
"I called on the President of the Storting, Olemic Thommessen, for the Norwegian Parliament to recognize the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people," wrote the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday in a microblog on Twitter.
He also pointed out that, together with representatives of the Verkhovna Rada factions, he visited the Norwegian parliament where they met with Thommessen. Parubiy posted a photo of the People's Front political party leader, Maksym Burbak and the leader of the Self Reliance political party, Oleh Berezyuk.