OTTAWA – Raynell Andreychuk, senator for Saskatchewan, has been elected as co-chair of the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council (UNIC) of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
“I am honored to have been entrusted with this responsibility by the NATO Parliamentary Association,” said Sen. Andreychuk. “Amid growing public support for Euro-Atlantic integration within Ukrainian society, and as Ukraine continues in its development as an independent and sovereign democracy, the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council provides a critical forum for building trust and understanding between Ukrainian parliamentarians and their counterparts throughout the Atlantic Alliance.”
Sen. Andreychuk and Verkhovna Rada First Vice-Chair Andriy Parubiy co-chaired UNIC’s most recent meeting on June 8.
The UNIC co-chairs adopted a statement reaffirming parliamentarians’ ongoing support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and underlining the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s solidarity with Ukraine and its support for Ukraine’s reform process.
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is an interparliamentary organization that brings together legislators from NATO member countries to consider security-related issues of common interest and concern.
The Ukraine-NATO Inter-parliamentary Council (UNIC) was created by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 1998 to bring greater transparency to the implementation of the NATO–Ukraine Charter and to demonstrate parliamentary interest and involvement in co-operation between NATO and Ukraine.
Members of UNIC meet twice a year: once in Brussels at NATO headquarters and once in Kyiv at the Ukrainian Parliament.