Hosted by the Speaker of the Polish lower house, Elżbieta Witek, the two-day get-together features top women lawmakers from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and Spain, news agencies have reported.
Also attending are the deputy Speaker of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, Olena Kondratiuk, and the vice-president of the European Parliament, Heidi Hautala.
Participants convened for a working dinner in Warsaw on Tuesday evening, ahead of a busy schedule of meetings the next day, officials told reporters.
Visits to the Ukrainian border and refugee centres
On Wednesday morning, the top female lawmakers were due to hold talks with officials from Poland’s Border Guard agency at the Polish-Ukrainian crossing in Dorohusk, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Later in the morning, the women parliamentary speakers were set to visit a reception centre for refugees from war-torn Ukraine in the eastern Polish city of Chełm, according to officials.
In the afternoon, the top female lawmakers will head to a humanitarian relief facility near the capital Warsaw, before meeting for talks in the Sejm, the lower house of Poland's parliament, later in the day, reporters were told.
The get-together comes as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues for the eighth successive week.
Poland on Tuesday reported it had welcomed nearly 2.84 million refugees fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP