Moldovan speaker laid flowers at Holodomor memorial in Washington

Chisinau, 27 June /MOLDPRES/- Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu, together with his counterparts from Ukraine, Lithuania and Moldovan Ambassador to the United States, Cristina Balan, laid flowers at the memorial of the Holodomor in Washington, in memory of the famine victims in Ukraine in 1932-1933, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.

The memorial was inaugurated in 2015 and created by the US Congress.

Candu holds a trilateral visit to the USA for the first time on 25 June - 1 July to demand full and active US involvement in the region.

The Moldovan speaker along with his counterparts from Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania, participated in a meeting in the US Congress, organized by the US Foreign Policy Council. The issues focused on energy security, in particular Nord Stream II and Russian Federation policy in Eastern Europe.

This visit comes after the joint commitment to promoting security policies and reforms for the European integration of the three Eastern Partnership champions, assumed at the 2 March conference in Chisinau and institutionalized in Kiev by creating the interparliamentary Assembly Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia.

The visit includes meetings with Paul Ryan, chairman of the House of Representatives, the US Congress, the members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Friendship Groups of the US Congress for Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, and European and Eurasian Assistant to US Secretary of State Wess A. Mitchell. There will also be public discussions organized with experts and media by the Atlantic Council, National Press Club and American Foreign Policy Council.

Last week, a resolution was passed in the US Congress in support of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, and the UN adopted the resolution calling on the Russian Federation to withdraw military troops from the territory of the Republic of Moldova.