Greeny was sitting at the funeral of the Pope in the first place. The Vatican seems to have made special
The Vatican did not deny that the protocol was broken.
Vatican. Vatican broke his protocol when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Greeny at Saturday’s funeral Pope Francis settled in the first row along with the White House boss Donald Trump and the French head of state Emmanuel Macron.
TASR informs according to the web report British daily The Daily Telegraph.
Želenskyj arrived at the Pope’s funeral to Rome together with his wife Olena at the time of expectation of a breakthrough in peace negotiations at Ukrainereminds the diary.
The leader of the war -torn country was welcomed by the present at the funeral with spontaneous applause when he occupied his place in the square of St. Petra.
He had briefly met Trump – It was their first personal meeting since an unprecedented quarrel in the White House oval office of February 28.
It seems that the Vatican has taken special measures to ensure that Greeding is to have a ceremony where most of the leaders sat by their country’s name and, according to whether they were the heads of state or governments, a prominent place, Telegraph writes.
Based on the rules, world leaders were to sit in alphabetical order by the name of their country in French – the traditional language of diplomacy at the time of protocols.
As President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyj was expected to sit in the third row, or even further backwards, the daily recalls. Instead, he was settled in the first row, 11 seats from Trump, who had it on his right.
The Vatican did not deny that protocol rules were violated. « I think they have filled the empty space, » said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni.
Among the Greeding and Trump, the presidents of India, Gabon, Macron with his wife Brigitte and Finnish President Alexander Stubb were placed among others.
In French, the United States begins to the letter ‘E’ (états-unis). On the right hand of Trump and his wife Melanie, President of Estonia Alar Karis and King Felipe (Spain – Espagne) sat.
Michael D. Higgins sat after the green’s right, Irish The President, which seems to point out that the protocol rules have been broken to ensure a prominent position for the Ukrainian leader, writes the daily.
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Elsewhere, the rules were strictly observed; Argentine President Javier Milei sat in a place next to the standing member of the Swiss Guard on the right first, since Pope Francis He came from Argentina.
British Prince William who represented the king at the funeral of the Pope Karol III.he sat in the third row next to the ending German office Olaf Scholz.
The British Prime Minister was also present at the funeral Keir Starmer with his wife as well as USA ex -president Joe Bidenthat sat in the fifth row.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella sat in the first place, while Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sat down at the back to observe the protocol on the heads of governments and heads of states such as presidents and members of the royal family adds Telegraph.
