{"id":17826,"date":"2021-07-22T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17826"},"modified":"2021-07-22T08:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:24:55","slug":"the-us-congress-called-on-biden-to-change-the-date-of-zelenskys-visit-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17826","title":{"rendered":"The US Congress Called on Biden to Change the Date of Zelensky&#8217;s Visit to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Congress has asked the White House to change the date of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s visit to Washington. It said co-chairman of the Group support Ukraine in Congress, Marcy Kaptur konhresvumen &#8220;Voice of America&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 22, 2021 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?cat=16\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Ukraine News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day before, the White House announced that they were waiting for the Ukrainian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17800\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17800\">president <\/a>in Washington on August 30. But at this time, the US Congress will be on vacation, which will last from August 7 to September 20, which makes it difficult to plan meetings with congressmen and senators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t like that time at all &#8230; We sent letters to the president (Joe Biden, ed.) Urging that this date be changed so that members of Congress could be here in Washington at one time.&#8221; I hope the president will consider it. I know that he is very busy &#8211; this is the first year of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12399\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12399\">administration<\/a>. But changing the date is not so difficult &#8211; and allow us to have a proper dialogue with the Ukrainian president, &#8220;said Kaptur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the eve of the chosen date of Zelensky&#8217;s visit, Senator Ted Cruz also criticized. &#8220;President Zelensky will not be able to attract members of Congress who oppose Biden&#8217;s capitulation to Putin on Nord Stream 2 on a bipartisan basis. Probably just a coincidence, \u201dthe senator wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The White House pushed the visit from July to the August recess. <br><br>President Zelensky won&#39;t be able to engage members of Congress, who on a bipartisan basis oppose Biden&#39;s surrender to Putin on Nord Stream 2. <br><br>Probably just a coincidence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jRsEj2Auiu\">https:\/\/t.co\/jRsEj2Auiu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1417903752112185347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In turn, Volodymyr Zelensky said that he expects a &#8220;meaningful and fruitful&#8221; meeting with Joe Biden on August 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Office of the President of Ukraine added that the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak and the Minister for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17534\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17534\">Foreign <\/a>Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba will visit Washington soon to discuss the content of Zelensky&#8217;s visit to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17652\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17652\">Zelensky\u2019s Visit to Washington Can Be Postponed to August<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Source<\/span>: <span style=\"color:#fad900\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ukrgate<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Congress has asked the White House to change the date of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s visit to Washington. It said co-chairman of the Group support Ukraine in Congress, Marcy Kaptur konhresvumen &#8220;Voice of America&#8221;. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 22, 2021 \u2013 Ukraine News The day before, the White House announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1884,2191,996,2399,1036,1058,1393],"class_list":["post-17826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","tag-congress","tag-joseph-biden","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-zelensky","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17828,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826\/revisions\/17828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}