Gov. Glenn Youngkin will travel to France later this month to visit the gravesites of Virginia service members killed during World War II's D-Day invasion and attend an international air show, his office announced Monday.
The governor will be paying his respects at Pointe Du Hoc, Omaha Beach and the Normandy American Cemetery before attending 2023 International Paris Air Show, where he is scheduled to meet with aerospace principals, defense companies and other industry leaders, according to a news release.
The visit - which will run from Saturday to Tuesday, June 20 - will mark Youngkin’s second announced official trip overseas since he took office in Jan. 2022. In April, he led a trade mission to Asia that included a politically sensitive meeting with the president of Taiwan. But Youngkin’s Secretary of Commerce and Trade Caren Merrick has previously questioned the “investment” of sending a high-level representative to the Paris air show after personally attending a similar event near London, according to previous reporting from The Washington Post that cited emails obtained through an open records request.
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