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Making the Case for Supporting Ukraine at Home and Abroad

April 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

The ACG will host a discussion and reception in Washington, DC with Omid Nouripour, Co-Chair of the Greens and Member of the Bundestag.

Omid Nouripour joined the Green Party in 1996 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2006, representing the Frankfurt/Main II district. He serves on the Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Finance Committee, and the Defense Committee. In addition to these committees, he was chairman of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2018-2021. Since February 2022, Mr. Nouripour has been Co-chair of Alliance 90/The Greens. Prior to that he served as the foreign policy spokesperson for the party from 2013 to 2021. Before being elected to the Bundestag, Mr. Nouripour was a member of the national executive committee of Alliance 90/The Greens from 2002 to 2006.

Mr. Nouripour came to Frankfurt/Main from Tehran, Iran with his family at the age of thirteen. From 1996 to 2004, he attended the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, where he studied an array of fields, including German, political science, law, sociology, philosophy, and economics. He is a board member of Atlantik-Brücke e.V., a member of the Advisory Council of the Berghof Foundation, and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

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April 8
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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