Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Russia-Ukraine war

The PRESIDENT (11:36): On Friday, 4 March 2022, the Speaker and I approved the flying of the Ukrainian flag on Parliament House in support of peace, freedom and democracy in Ukraine. We also made a public statement in which we said:

Democracy is under threat in Ukraine and, as a democratic legislature, the Victorian Parliament expresses its support for the democratically elected parliamentarians of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada.

We express our sympathy to the Ukrainian people for the lives already lost and for the suffering that they have endured.