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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 2015 WWW.UNWLA.ORG 13 Calendar of Events of UNWLA Activities The past several weeks have been filled with events dealing with Ukraine and the many facets of its current complicated situation. I would like to share a chronicle of these with you. February 25th – National Council of Women of the United States Annual Board Meeting (the UNWLA has been a member of NCW since 1952) held by conference call. The call included Presi- dent Mary E. Singletary’s year-end message and her re-election as President. I and Honorary Pres- ident Iryna Kurowyckyj requested the NCW Pres- ident to inform her contacts about Nadiya Savchenko and thus bring awareness about her dire situation to NCW member organizations. February 27th – The Center for U.S.-Ukraine Relations (CUSUR) held a briefings series to which the UNWLA was invited. The UNWLA President and the Vice President of Public Rela- tions were joined by several other UNWLA mem- bers at “Taking Measure of Ukraine’s Challenges and Opportunities in 2015,” which was held at Denton’s International Law Firm in New York City. The event moderator was Dr. Walter Zar- yckyj, Executive Director of CUSUR, and the fea- tured speaker was Andrij Parubiy, First Deputy Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament. The current po- litical, financial, business, and social landscape in Ukraine was discussed by the panelists. Although the challenges are clearly overwhelming in all these spheres, the participants also touched upon the possibility of positive outcomes—given certain assumptions. February 28th – Executive Board meeting was held at UNWLA offices in NYC. The main discus- sion was focused on the celebration of our organi- zation’s 90th anniversary in 2015. More infor- mation will follow later. February 28th – The UNWLA was invited to and participated in a meeting of tri-state diaspora organization leaders with Andrij Parubiy, ar- ranged by the New York branch of the Organiza- tion for Defense of Four Freedoms. This event was followed by a general diaspora meeting with the Deputy Speaker. This patriot of Ukraine em- phasized the importance of unity with the Presi- dent of Ukraine (whether or not one agrees with his policies) at a time when the aggressor is plot- ting to sow discord and dissension in Ukraine. We left this event with some hope for the future of Ukraine, despite all the problems with which we became more familiar the day before. March 4th – Ukrainian Day, an advocacy event in Washington, D.C. (attended by UNWLA Presi- dent Marianna Zajac and Roksolana Misilo, Vice President of Public Relations), was organized by Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS). House Committee on Foreign Relations hearing “Ukraine Under Siege”; the Honorable Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary at the Bu- reau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the U.S. Department of State was testifying. It was very clear that the majority of the Committee members (both Democrat and Republican) believed it nec- essary to support Ukraine with lethal weapons and allow it to defend itself as a country striving for a non-corrupt democratic system. However, the final decision has been held up on the Presi- dent’s desk for some time. Official visit with Congressman Elliot En- gel, U.S. Representative for New York's 16th con- gressional district and Vice Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Relations. Congressman Engel announced his plan to us to introduce new legislation which would offer Ukraine greater as- sistance on a variety of fronts, hoping to ratchet up the pressure on Vladimir Putin for his “reck- less, destructive, and destabilizing policies ... and send a clear message that the United States stands with the people of Ukraine.” He also en- couraged diaspora organizations and leaders to keep up the pressure on their representatives. (An interesting note is that all four of Congressman Engel’s grandparents were born in Ukraine.) As the UNWLA President attended the Congressman Engel meeting, Roksolana Misilo with a delegation of New Jersey residents met with Representative Bill Pascrell, Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen, Senator Robert Menen- dez, and Senator Cory Booker’s foreign affairs staffer. At each of these meetings, both with Rep- resentative Engel of New York and the New Jer- sey representatives, the issue of Nadiya Savchen- ko’s release was addressed. Reception at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., hosted by Lithuania’s Ambas- sador, Ž ygimantas Pavilion. UNIS presented an award to the Ambassador in gratitude for his per-
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