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Ukrainian President took part in the March of Unity in Paris
12.01.2015 10:19 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of yesterday, the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and other global leaders took part in the March of Unity and solidarity with victims of terrorist attacks happened in France on the 7th and the 9th of January, President Petro Poroshenko Press Office reports.
As to the report, the event was attended by leaders of Ukraine, Germany, UK, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Palestine, the EU, the European Parliament and the European Commission.
Reportedly, Poroshenko admitted that Ukraine understood the pain of France as nobody else. «The March of Unity has united all civilized countries of the world in France. Today, we are defending the values of democracy and freedom of speech together,» Poroshenko said. «I believe that humanism and unity will always overcome terror,» the President emphasized.
As it is known, hundreds of thousands of people came out to the streets of Paris in order to pay tribute to the murdered Charlie Hebdo journalists and other victims of terrorist attacks.
Participants of the March assembled on Place de la République, expressed their solidarity with ideas of freedom of speech, freedom of thought and rejection of terrorism, and called for tolerance, peace and struggle against terrorism in all its manifestations.
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