- Title: UKRAINE: PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO MEETS WITH VISITING UNITED STATES SENATORS
- Date: 12th February 2005
- Summary: (CEEF) KIEV, UKRAINE (FEBRUARY 11, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIORS PRESIDENTS RESIDENCE 0.05 2. MV PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SHAKES HANDS WITH U.S. SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON; YUSHCHENKO SHAKES HANDS WITH U.S. SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN 3. MV YUSHCHENKO EMBRACES U.S. SENATOR JOHN McCAIN 0.42 4. MV U.S. SENATORS WALKING TO MEETING ROO
- Embargoed: 27th February 2005 12:00
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- Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
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- Story Text: U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton, John McCain and
Joseph Leiberman meet Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko.
Ukraine's new leaders met a delegation of U.S.
senators on Friday (February 11, 2005) that included Hillary
Clinton and Republican John McCain.
Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko met the 11-member
delegation in Kiev to discuss U.S.-Ukrainian relations,
local media reports said.
Clinton, a democrat and the wife of former U.S.
President Bill Clinton, and McCain have nominated
Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili for
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yushchenko and Saakashvili both came to power after
leading mass protests against fraudulent elections in their
countries.
Yushchenko and Ukraine's new Prime Minister Yulia
Tymoshenko have pledged to fight rampant corruption,
increase living standards and work towards the ex-Soviet
state's eventual membership of the European Union.
The U.S. Senate delegation met Tymoshenko for talks
and were also expected to hold discussions with Ukraine
parliament speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn.
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