VP Harris to address Ukraine summit in Switzerland, meet Zelenskiy

15/6/2024 11:24

        U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the international Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland this weekend, where she will meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and address world leaders.
        
        She will stress that the outcome of the war in Ukraine affects the entire world, a U.S. official said, and push for a maximum number of countries to back the notion that Russia's invasion violates the U.N. Charter's founding principles and that Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected.
        
        Harris, who will spend less than 24 hours at the gathering in Lucerne, will be standing in for President Joe Biden at the event. The president will be just ending his participation at the Group of Seven summit in Italy and returning to the United States to attend a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in Los Angeles.
        Harris will meet Zelenskiy and address the summit's plenary session. Biden met Zelenskiy both at the G7 summit, where they signed a U.S.-Ukraine security agreement, and in France for events surrounding the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.