““This is one of the key tasks, including parliamentary diplomacy, to convey the importance of these programs to our American colleagues””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“We will be in the US. We hope to have effective meetings, in particular with the State Department, where we will emphasize the need to continue important programs for Ukraine in both the energy sphere and in support of social initiatives. This is one of the key tasks, including parliamentary diplomacy, to convey the importance of these programs to our American colleagues, ”she said that this trip is scheduled for the next week.
According to her, there is no final answer to a Ukrainian delegation meeting with the US Secretary of State.
“But the meeting is planned with representatives of the State Department,” Zabunna added.
On January 28, the deputy head of the Presidential Office Irina Vereshchuk said that “subject consultations with American partners with the aim of continuing the financing of humanitarian response in Ukraine”.
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On January 24, the US State Department has ordered the freezing new funding for almost all US external assistance programs as part of President Donald Trump’s desire to “bring these programs in line with its foreign policy purposes.”
Subsequently, it became known that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ukraine has ordered to suspend all the projects and expenditures on them.