Tuesday’s vote was also second House measure in less than a week to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Last week, the House passed a bill that would provide $1 billion in loan guarantees to the new Ukrainian government.
- The Senate also is considering an aid package for Ukraine, but has not yet voted. Ukraine’s interim government is appealing to the United States and Europe for assistance.
Democratic House Whip Steny Hoyer said Tuesday’s resolution shows where Americans stand on Russian intervention in Ukraine.
“The people of Ukraine who want to build a future based on democracy and freedom will hear us and be strengthened by our support,” said Hoyer.
With diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis stalled, some leading Republicans are calling for the United States to accelerate its export of natural gas, since Ukraine and a number of European countries are dependent on Russia for their energy needs. Republican Representative Luke Messer said Moscow should not be permitted to use energy as a political weapon.
- “America should also take this opportunity to expand energy production and energy exports to send a clear message to Ukraine, Russia and our allies that America will not allow Russia to use its energy resources to intimidate the world,” said Messer.
- On Wednesday, interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will visit the White House and go to the U.S. Capitol to meet with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez and members of the committee.
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Ukraine appeals to the West as Crimea turns to Russia...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Ukraine's government appealed for Western help on Tuesday to stop Moscow annexing Crimea but the Black Sea peninsula, overrun by Russian troops, seemed fixed on a course that could formalize rule from Moscow within days.
With their own troops in Crimea effectively prisoners in their bases, the new authorities in Kiev painted a sorry picture of the military bequeathed them by the pro-Moscow president overthrown two weeks ago. They announced the raising of a new National Guard to be drawn from volunteers among veterans.
The prime minister, heading for talks at the White House and United Nations, told parliament in Kiev he wanted the United States and Britain, as guarantors of a 1994 treaty that saw Ukraine give up its Soviet nuclear weapons, to intervene both diplomatically and militarily to fend off Russian "aggression"..............http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140312?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 4152, S. 2183.-The White House, Office of the Press Secretary.....
ReplyDeleteOn Thursday, April 3, 2014, the President signed into law:
H.R. 4152, the "Support for the Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014," which provides for loan guarantees for Ukraine and directs the imposition of sanctions on certain individuals with regard to Ukraine; and
S. 2183, which authorizes funds to enhance U.S. news and information programming to the people of Ukraine and the neighboring regions.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/03/statement-press-secretary-hr-4152-s-2183
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