Please grab a seat, we were going to start. Good morning and welcome too, im the senior fellow at gmf and i direct the frontline of Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister european and the integration and its great to have you here, you had an incredibly busy schedule over the last couple of days and very successful meetings on capitol hill in the Trump Administration, its a busy time for you and is busy in washington all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you. This is incredibly important time for you to be here in washington and in some sense the zelensky government took Office Offspring and is been in office for six months and since the beginning of september it is been an incredibly busy time for the new laws being passed and a focus on anticorruption and also this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that the normandy meeting took place with president zelensk
[inaudible conversations] please grab a seat, we were going to start. Good morning and welcome too, im the senior fellow at gmf and i direct the frontline of Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister european and the integration and its great to have you here, you had an incredibly busy schedule over the last couple of days and very successful meetings on capitol hill in the Trump Administration, its a busy time for you and is busy in washington all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you. This is incredibly important time for you to be here in washington and in some sense the zelensky government took Office Offspring and is been in office for six months and since the beginning of september it is been an incredibly busy time for the new laws being passed and a focus on anticorruption and also this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that the normandy meeting took pl
Were going to start. Good morning, and welcome to the German Marshall Fund of the United States. , am thus in your fellow at gmf frontlineect gmfs for Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister for european and euro atlantic integration. It is great to have you here. I know you have had a busy schedule the last couple of days, very successful meetings both in capitol hill but also with the Trump Administration. Its a busy time for you. Of course it is fairly busy in washington all the way across town, with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you here. Needless to say, this is an incredibly important time for you to be here. In some sense, the zelenskiy government, he took office last ring, has been in office now for rada inhs, and a new place since the beginning of september. It has been an incredibly busy time. You laws passed, a focus on anticorruption, and also just this week, it is hard to believe it w
As all you know took office last spring, has been office now for six months. Its been an incredibly busy time for the new laws passed, focus on anticorruption and then also just this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that nobody meeting took place with president zelensky, president putin i think had a first meeting facetoface meeting since 2016. Mr. Macron, mrs. Merkel as well during the time that the people of our interest to get a better understanding of the outcome of that meeting. Theres a sense of different obligations, responsibilities that came out of that meeting, including the rada passing i think an extension of special status, the don bosco part of the donbass which you will explain but were hoping really today to speak to you about a couple different issues and conversation. Well story and then open it up to those who are participating. This is an on the record conversation and we very much appreciate that you could be here and spend some time but really to
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