Ukraine will host the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO for the first time in 2020, Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Speaker Iryna Gerashchenko has said.

"I just received a text message from the chair of our parliamentary delegation to NATO PA, Iryna Friz, with important and wonderful news: the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will be held for the first time in Ukraine in 2020," she wrote on her Facebook page on Sunday evening. Gerashchenko believes that Ukraine is taking the right steps on the Euro-Atlantic path.

"Our NATO PA delegation is doing a good work in Bucharest, where this decision has been passed today. We are on the Euro-Atlantic path," she added.