Like Leonid Kuchma 25 years earlier, newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky made his first official foreign visit to Canada. Unlike Kuchma’s five-day visit in October 1994, which included stopovers in Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, Mr. Zelensky came only to Toronto on July 1-3 and that was to participate in the third annual Ukraine Reform Conference, the first two having been held in London and Copenhagen.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (C) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C-L), along with Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland (2nd L), Finland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto (L), First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Economic Developmentand Trade Stepan Kubiv (C-R) and Lithuania Minister of Foreign Affairs Linus Linkevicius (2nd R) wave during a family photo at the Ukrainian Reform conference in Toronto, Ontario, on July 2, 2019.
