Posted on 02/12/2005 8:34:47 AM PST by FairOpinion
President Viktor Yushchenko met Feb. 11 with a U.S. congressional delegation that included two prominent U.S. senators who have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The 11-member delegation that included Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain discussed ways to strengthen U.S.-Ukrainian relations, develop democratic values in this ex-Soviet state and the new government's plans to attract foreign investment, Yushchenko's office said.
In meetings with parliament speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, McCain said they also discussed assistance in the clean-up of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster and U.S. assistance to Ukraine in its efforts to join the World Trade Organization and the European Union.
Clinton, a liberal Democrat and the wife of former President Bill Clinton, and McCain, a conservative Republican, last month nominated Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili for the Nobel Peace Prize. In their nomination letter, the senators commended the presidents for winning "popular support for the universal values of democracy, individual liberty and civil rights."
Both men came to power after mass demonstrations protesting fraudulent votes in their former Soviet republics.
"Both presidents not only deserve that recognition on behalf of themselves, but they are really being nominated because of what they, together with the people of Georgia and Ukraine, have done," Clinton told journalists in Kyiv.
Yushchenko and the U.S. delegation also discussed Ukraine's plans to withdraw its 1,650 peacekeepers from Iraq. The Ukrainian leader told the U.S. lawmakers that the country would first discuss the issue with its coalition partners and the Iraqi government, his press office said.
A total of 16 Ukrainian soldiers have died in Iraq and its involvement in the U.S.-led mission is deeply unpopular among Ukrainians.
The U.S. delegation also met with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Yeah I usually don't sink to junior high, sorry.
Actually the truth is that support for Yushchenko came from the Pro-US Eastern European nations like Poland and Czech Republic, not from people like German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Vladimir Putin's good friend.
Schroeder cool on EU membership for Ukraine - 27 January 2005 - "At present it's about a partnership - not accession."
Putin hails relations with France - 2005-01-22 - "Our views on global developments are mostly identical"
Yeah, right, that's why you posted the address of a webpage from www.larouchepub.com, the Lyndon LaRouche website.
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