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Ukraine's prime minister Denys Shmyhal expressed gratitude to Europe's parliament for deciding to make his nation a candidate for EU membership.
“The European Parliament recommended granting #EU candidate status for 🇺🇦! Deputies approved the resolution also calling for providing weapons to #Ukraine to fight the aggressor,” Shmyhal said in a tweet.
“Grateful to @EP_President & @Europarl_EN for solidarity with Ukrainian people. We will win together!” Ukraine's PM wrote.
According to Deutsche Welle, 438 MEPs voted in favor of the motion, 65 voted against it, and 94 abstained.
The European Parliament proposed that the EU Council agree that the Versailles Declaration recognizes Ukraine's European ambitions and application for EU membership and that it grant Ukraine EU candidate status as a clear political signal of solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
Picture Credits: AFP
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