Board of YES visited Kyiv

Board of YES visited Kyiv
24 May 2011

On May 23, 2011 the Board of Yalta European Strategy (YES) visited Kyiv to discuss Ukraine’s European integration prospects with Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.

The chairman of the board of YES Aleksander Kwasniewski (President of Poland (1995-2005)) and board members Victor Pinchuk, Alexander Rahr (program Director of German Council on Foreign Relations), Marek Siwiec (Member of the European Parliament) and Jean-Pierre Saltiel (former president of Rothschild Conseil International) also met with Members of Parliament of Ukraine, with experts and with the ambassadors of the United States, the European Commission and EU member states, as well as with the leader of the Front of Change party to discuss Ukraine’s political and economic development, and the country's European integration prospects.

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John Tefft
John Tefft
Ambassador to Ukraine (2009-2013), 15th YES Annual Meeting, 2018
«Russia still has to become a modern nation. It still hasn’t made the fundamental decisions to determine whether it’s going to be a part of the international community or whether it’s going to try to be an imperial power and attack its neighbors, and take their land.»