Posted on 10/16/2004 10:23:54 PM PDT by Calpernia
KYIV - Dr. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Prize winner, author, and founder/chairman of Kissinger Associates in New York City, will speak in Kyiv, Ukraine late next week as part of an international lecture series according to reports in Kyiv.
Dr. Kissinger will be the guest of Viktor Pinchuk, member of the Ukrainian Parliament, a leading industrialist who is the owner of several large businesses in Ukraine including the ICTV Channel. Mr. Pinchuk is married to Olena Franchuk, daughter of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Olena Franchuk recently started a foundation in Ukraine to fight the spread of HIV-AIDS.
MP Viktor Pinchuk started and is funding an international lecture series in 2004. Guests for his lecture series have included former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush who spoke in Kyiv on May 21, former U.S. general and former commander of NATO troops in Europe, Wesley Clark, who gave a lecture in Kyiv on June 2, and Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and presently a foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential contender John Kerry, who made a presentation in Kyiv on July 9, 2004.
Dr Kissinger has long taken an interest in Ukrainian matters. He met with Ukraine's former foreign minister Anatoliy Zlenko in New York on January 21, 2004. During the meeting Kissinger noted the importance of further deepening the partnership relations between Ukraine and the U.S. Kissinger also noted the favorable economic growth in Ukraine and stated Ukraine is " a factor of stability in the European continent," according to Interfax-Ukraine.
The prime minister of Poland Marek Belka met with Dr. Kissinger in Warsaw on May 6, 2004, and they discussed the political and economic situation in Eastern Europe, including Poland's interest in Ukraine's further progress in its interest in Euro-Atlantic Integration. Dr. Kissinger participated in the international conference entitled, "New Geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe, Between the European Union and the United States."
In additional to giving the lecture Dr. Kissinger is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych, former Prime Minister and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko and other government and political officials in Ukraine.
Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, came to the U.S. in 1938 and was naturalized a U.S. citizen in 1943. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1950 and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1952 and 1954 respectively.
>From 1954 until 1971 he was a member of the Faculty of Harvard >University, both in the Department of Government and the Center for International Affairs. Kissinger served as Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He was also a key negotiator of the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam, for which the won the Nobel {Peace Prize in 1973. After leaving government service he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of which he is chairman. -30- (The Action Ukraine Report) ======================================================= ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-04, No.188: ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
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Oh, yeah. I remember that kissinger guy. He was the one who said the Soviets would be around forever and we had to base our foreign policy on kissing their *ss. After Reagan was elected president, the same guy said he couldn't understand how anyone could vote for him for governor, let alone president. Yeah, I remember kissinger.
Interesting. It might be some 'under-the-radar-screen' diplomacy, especially in light of his meeting with the Polish prime minister.
bump!
I hope they can hear Kissinger's speach over all the snoring.
Dr. Kissinger is a very well connected man in the world of international statemanship. Somewhat reminiscent of Ol' Armand Hammer.
Henry the K is a politically powerful man.
Bump for one of my heroes.
=== Olena Franchuk recently started a foundation in Ukraine to fight the spread of HIV-AIDS.
This does not bode well.
Were you serious? Joking?
If serious, what do you admire?
Have you ever looked over the Kissinger files?
Is this your picture :-) ?
That one is a cartoon I picked up on the Net that I thought resembled me. The other two on my page are actual characture paintings a friend made of 'my likeness'.
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