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Diplomatic relations between France and Ukraine were established in 1992. Since 2006, Ukraine is an observer in the Francophonie. France is a member of the European Union, which Ukraine applied for in 2022. Both countries are full members of Council of Europe.
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The first Ukrainian-French relations date back to XI century when on May 19, 1051, the king of Franks Henry I married to Anna, daughter of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Yaroslav the Wise. After the death of the French king (1060), Anna of Kyiv was the first queen of France to become regent young son Philip. Later, in the annals, Anna's name appears as a wife count Raoul IV de Valois. The queen founded the nunnery of Moulins de Sanlis and the church of Saint Vincent in Paris.
After the decline of Kyivan Rus'/Ruthenian state relations with the Western Europe weakened. In 1240, Kyiv asked nations to the West of Europe for help against the invasion of the Mongol-Tatar hordes. In 1245, the Metropolitan of Kyiv Petro Akerovych, as «Ruthenian Archbishop», participated in Lyon Cathedral. He told the participants about the siege and fall of the ancient capital, about the consequences of the Ruthenia's destruction and warned Western European society about the danger from the Mongol-Tatars. The purpose of his visit was to find help for Ruthenian lands against the Mongol invasion. In order to assess the situation and organize protection against the Mongol-Tatars, which became a great threat to Europe, it was decided in 1246 to send an embassy to Kievan Rus and the Golden Horde, which he headed franciscan Giovanni de Plano Carpini. Carpini's notes about that period contain very valuable information about Ukraine, namely, a description of Kyiv at that time.
In the second half of the 14th century, the facts of the education of Ukrainians in Sorbonne. They are listed as students «from Ruthenia» (1353, 1369), «of the Ruthenian nation from Kyiv» (1463, 1469) or «Natione Ruthenia de Ucraina» (1567).
In 1643—1645 notable Ruthenian grammarian Ivan Uzhevych studied at Sorbonne University in Paris, and wrote the compiler «Slovenian grammar» in Latin. It was the first grammar book of Old Ukrainian language, the original is stored in the manuscripts department Paris National Library (1643) and in the city library of the city Arras (1645). [1]
Hetman of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky arrived to Fontainebleau in april 1645 and his met with Count De Brégy (then ambassador to Poland, Warsaw) in order to discuss the possibility of enlisting Cossack soldiers into the French army. Thus, more than 2,000 Cossacks from Ukraine took part in the siege of Dunkirk, in 1646, with the army of Grand Condé. [2]
Ukrainian territory is then (from XVIII century to 1917, then from 1920 to 1991) under Austrian and Russian domination, preventing any direct contact with other states. However, we can remember the landing of French troops in the port of Odesa in december 1918 in order to support White Army in their resistance against Bolsheviks.
Relations only really resumed from december 1991, notably with the signing of a treaty of understanding and cooperation in June 1992, one year after the country's independence. [3]
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French President Jacques Chirac made a state visit to Ukraine in September 1998. [4]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko paid a state visit to France on 26 June 2017, when he met with French President Emmanuel Macron. [5] Poroshenko also visited Senlis to meet the Ukrainian community of France and honor memory of Anne of Kiev — Queen of France. [6]
In the first six months of 2017 the trade between the countries grew by 15.2%. [7]
Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) that resulted in the creation of an independent Cossack state in Ukraine. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereiaslav with the Russian Tsar and allied the Cossack Hetmanate with Tsardom of Russia, thus placing central Ukraine under Russian protection. During the uprising, the Cossacks under his leadership massacred tens of thousands of Poles and Jews, making it one of the most traumatic events in Jewish history.
In the 19th century France built a new French colonial empire second only to the British Empire. It was humiliated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, which marked the rise of Germany to dominance in Europe. France allied with Great Britain and Russia and was on the winning side of the First World War. Although it was initially easily defeated early in the Second World War, Free France, through its Free French Forces and the Resistance, continued to fight against the Axis powers as an Allied nation and was ultimately considered one of the victors of the war, as the allocation of a French occupation zone in Germany and West Berlin testifies, as well as the status of permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. It fought losing colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria. The Fourth Republic collapsed and the Fifth Republic began in 1958 to the present. Under Charles de Gaulle it tried to block American and British influence on the European community. Since 1945, France has been a founding member of the United Nations, of NATO, and of the European Coal and Steel Community. As a charter member of the United Nations, France holds one of the permanent seats in the Security Council and is a member of most of its specialized and related agencies.
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