2:05 am: two days of international conference in Switzerland to think about the reconstruction of Ukraine
An international conference is being held in Lugano on Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 July in order to draw the outlines of the future reconstruction of Ukraine.
The "task is really colossal" if only in the liberated territories, recognized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, whose Swiss hosts hoped to come in person but who will participate - as he is now used to - by videoconference. .
And "we need to liberate 2,000 villages and towns in eastern and southern Ukraine", he added, in a conflict whose outcome remains uncertain despite substantial military and financial aid from the allies of Ukraine.
Its Prime Minister Denys Schmigal arrived on site on Sunday - suit and tie - accompanied by the President of Parliament, Rouslan Stefantchouk - polo shirt and khaki pants - in a Swiss air force aircraft.
The two men were welcomed by the President of the Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis.
In total, the Ukrainian delegation will number around a hundred people to meet political leaders, international institutions and representatives of the private sector.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, whose country has just taken over the EU Presidency for six months, and her counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki from Poland, the country hosting by far the most Ukrainian refugees will be in Lugano to draw the outline of a kind of "Marshall Plan", named after the American economic program which had made it possible to raise Western Europe from the ruins of the Second World War.
With AFP
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