From January 2007
JANUARY 2008
Jan 3, 2008 - USUBC luncheon meeting with U.S. Ambassador William
Taylor, co-sponsored by Cargill, Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C.,
approximately 45 persons attended.
Jan 24, 2008 - USUBC participated in an investors meeting with PM Yulia
Tymoshenko and VPM Hryhoriy Nemyria, held at the Cabinet of Ministers
Club, 7 Institura, in Kyiv.
Jan 29, 2008 - USUBC working dinner with U.S. Ambassador William
Taylor, at Tsar's Village, Kyiv, Ukraine, 32 persons attended.
Jan 31, 2008 - USUBC meeting with Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Hryhoriy
Nemyria, Conference Room, SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine, 60 persons
attended.
MARCH 2008
Mar 4, 2008 - USUBC meeting with Richard Steffens, U.S. Senior Commercial Officer, held at the Embassy of Ukraine, Washington D.C., 45 persons attended the meeting and reception.
March 5 , 2008 - USUBC working lunch with Ambassador of Ukraine, Dr.
Oleh Shamshur, Embassy of Ukraine, Washington D.C., 12 persons attended.
March 10-12 - USUBC participated in the Ukrainian Investment Conference
in London, UK, sponsored by the Adam Smith Institute.
March 10, 2008 - USUBC cooperated with the EU Ukraine Business Council
in Brussels to support the meeting set up by the EUUBC with PM Yulia
Tymoshenko in Brussels. Several USUBC members attended.
March 18, 2008 - USUBC participated as a member in the first meeting of
the new Council of Investors (COI), appointed by the government of PM Yulia Tymoshenko, in Kyiv.
March 19, 2008 - USUBC meeting with Minister of Economy of Ukraine Bohdan M. Danylyshyn, Kyiv, Ukraine, Conference Room, SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine, 60 persons attended.
March 21, 2008 - USUBC working lunch with U.S. Ambassador William Taylor, Tsar's Village, Kyiv, Ukraine, 35 persons attended.
APRIL 2008
April 14-15, 2008 - USUBC participated in the Ukrainian Energy Conference
in Washington, D.C.
April 17-18, 2008 - USUBC participated in the annual meeting of the U.S.
Ex-Im Bank in Washington, D.C.
April 16, 2008 - USUBC IT Industry Group Workshop, Capitol Hilton Hotel,
Washington D.C., 50 persons attended.
MAY 2008
May 7, 2008 - USUBC Legal Affairs Working Group Workshop, Embassy
of Ukraine, Washington D.C., 60 persons attended meeting and reception.
May 15, 2008 - Economic Environment workshop in Kyiv sponsored by the
EU-Ukraine Business Council, The Bleyzer Foundation, British Ukrainian
Society and USUBC, Conference Room, SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine,
50 persons attended.
May 17-19, 2008 - USUBC participated in the annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Kyiv, Ukraine and related meeting.
May 22, 2008 - USUBC attended President Yushchenko's Energy Conference
in Kyiv, Ukraine.
May 29 - USUBC attended the annual meeting of the Polish-Ukrainian
Cooperation Foundation (PAUCI) in Lviv, Ukraine.
May 30-31 - USUBC attended the Ukraine-Poland Economic Development
Conference in Lviv, Ukraine sponsored by PAUCI.
JUNE 2008
June 4-5, 2008 - USUBC participated in several meetings with the U.S.
Secretary of Commerce in Kyiv. These included a reception at the U.S.
Ambassador's Residence, a large business reception, his visit to Max-Well,
to Cisco, and a small meeting organized by the Ministry of Economy.
June 6, 2008 - USUBC working luncheon meeting with U.S. Ambassador
William Taylor, Hyatt Hotel in Kyiv, 40 persons attended.
June 11, 2008 - USUBC reception with the Foundation for International Arts
and the Embassy of Ukraine, Ukraine Embassy, Washington D.C., 60 persons attended.
June 16, 2008 - USUBC Ukraine Economic Briefing with Edilberto Sigura,
Chief Economist, SigmaBleyzer, USUBC Office. Washington D.C., 40
persons attended.
June 23, 2008 - USUBC participated, as a member, in the meeting of
the CSIS U.S.-Ukraine Partnership working group, Washington, D.C.
JULY 2008
July 4, 2008 - USUBC attended annual 4th of July reception at the U.S.
Ambassador's residence in Kyiv.
July 22, 2008 - USUBC participated, as a member, in the meeting of the
Tymoshenko government's Council of Investors (COI) in Kyiv.
July 29, 2008 - USUBC Meeting with Edward Kaska, New Economic
Counselor, U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, USUBC Office, Washington D.C., 35
persons attended.
2007 EVENTS
January 1-December 10, 2007
Meeting with U.S. Ambassador William Taylor
January 5, 2007
Attended by 25 members and guests
U.S.-Ukraine Business Council’s AgriBusiness Working Group Meeting with Laurie Molner, Director, European Trade Issues, USTR
January 17, 2007
Attended by 6 members
U.S.-Ukraine Business Council’s Legal Working Group Meeting with David Kramer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
January 11, 2007
Attended by 7 members
Luncheon meeting with the Member of Parliament of Ukraine Anatoliy Kinakh
February 2, 2007
Attended by 25 members and guests
Luncheon meeting with Valery Pyatnytskyi, the Ukrainian Deputy Economy Minister & Serhiy Korsunskyi, Director of the Economy Department at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
February 20, 2007
Attended by 14 members and guests
Breakfast meeting with MP and Opposition Leader Yulia Tymoshenko
March 2, 2007
Attended by 66 members and guests
Luncheon meeting with four members of Parliament of Ukraine
Oleh Bilorus, Yulia Timoshenko Bloc; Oksana Bilosir, "Our Ukraine" Faction; Leonid Kozhara, Party of the Regions; Valeriy Lukianov, Party of the Regions
April 27, 2007
Attended by 24 members and guests
Luncheon meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
April 30, 2007
Attended by 56 members and guests
Briefing with Ruslana Lyzhychko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
June 5, 2007
Attended by 16 members and guests
Luncheon meeting with Raisa Bogatyrova, Leader of the Party of Regions Faction, Parliament of Ukraine
July 18, 2007
Attended by 34 members and guests
Luncheon briefing with U.S. Ambassador William Taylor
August 20, 2007
Attended by 42 members and guests
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Briefing and reception with William Kline, U.S. Commercial Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
August 15, 2007
Attended by 24 members and guests
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Luncheon meeting with Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Economy, Natalia Boytsun and introducing new Henadii Nadolenko, Head of the Trade and Economic Mission at the Embassy of Ukraine
September 12, 2007
Attended by 33 members and guests
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Breakfast meeting with Anatliy Kinakh, Minister of Economy of Ukraine and Mykola Udovychenko, Deputy Chair of the Board at the State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine
October 18, 2007
Attended by 41 members and guests
Meeting with U.S. Ambassador William Taylor in Kyiv, Ukraine
December 7, 2007
Attended by 65 members and guests
2006 Events
December 13 - Annual meeting. Morgan Williams, named Acting President.
December 4 - Council members invited to reception in honor of Prime Minister Yanukovych.
November 28 - Council members meet with Ambassador Taylor in Ukraine.
October 30 - Council members invited to “Trade and Investment in Ukraine, Current Prospects and Challenges, Viewpoints from the United States and Canada.”
October 10 - Executive Committee Meeting (open to all members).
September 14 - Council members invited to attend the Ukrainian Independence Day celebration in Washington, DC.
August 8 - Council President Lotarski welcomed 17 Ukrainian agribusiness executives to the United States and briefed them on the Council’s work.
July 28 - Council sponsors Ukraine table at the Taste of America event at the members’ dining room at the US House of Representatives.
June 29 - Council meets with new US Ambassador William Taylor in Kyiv.
June 28 - Council joins Coalition for a Secure and Democratic Ukraine, co-chaired by Ambassadors Steven Pifer and William Green Miller, former US Ambassadors to Ukraine.
June 14 - Council meets with Richard Steffens, Senior Commercial Officer & US Commercial Counselor to Ukraine.
June 7 - Council hosts luncheon in honor of First Deputy Chief of Staff Ivan Vasiunyk.
May 31 - Executive Committee Meeting (open to all members).
May 31 - Council hosts breakfast meeting with US Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor, Jr.
April 21 - Council lunch in honor of First Deputy Prime Minister Stashevsky, National Bank Governor Stelmakh, Economy Minsiter Yatsenyuk, and other senior Ukrainian Government officials.
March 23 - Council President Lotarski represents the Council at a White House ceremony during which President Bush signed legislation extending permanent normal trade relations to Ukraine.
March 9 - Members invited to hear Ukraine Foreign Minister Borys Tarasuyk.
March 6 - Council President Lotarski and Executive Committee Chairman Morgan Williams represent the Council at the signing of the US-Ukraine Bilateral WTO Accession Agreement on Market Access.
March 6 - Members host a luncheon in honor of Ukraine’s Minister of Economy Arsenyi Yatsenyk.
February 24 - Members welcome new Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oleg Shamshur at a luncheon in his honor.
January 18 - Executive Committee Meeting (open to all members).
2005 Events
December 8 - Council sends letter to Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Frank Lavin supporting recognition of Ukraine as a “market economy” for the purposes of US anti-dumping laws.
December 7 - Council sends letters to Chairman Bill Thomas and 40 members of the House Ways and Means Committee in support of Ukraine’s graduation from Jackson Vanik and receipt of normal trade relations.
December 5 - Executive Committee Meeting (open to all members).
November 7 - Council members invited to attend the 10th anniversary celebration of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund.
November 2 - Council members make presentations at the US-Ukraine Energy Dialogue.
November 1 - Council President Lotarski participates in Senior Executive Discussion with Prime Minister Yekhanurov and Minister of Economy Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
November 1 - Members breakfast meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov.
October 31 - Council partners with the International Economic Alliance to host the first US-Ukrainian Investment Symposium.
October 18 - Council President Lotarski represents Council at the 10th Anniversary celebration of the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
October 14 - Executive Committee Meeting (open to all members).
September 29 - Members briefing by Michael Bleyzer, President and CEO of SigmaBleyzer.
September 27-8 - Council co-sponsors “Ukraine’s Quest for Mature National Statehood – Roundtable IV: Ukraine’s Transition to an Established National Identity.”
September 19 - Members breakfast roundtable with Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasyuk.
September 8 - Members invited to Independence Day reception at the Embassy of Ukraine.
September 6 - Members meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych and US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst.
August 3 - Members briefing by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Europe Eric Stewart.
July 26 - Members briefing by Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Daniel Fried.
July 14 - Executive Committee Meeting (open to all members).
June 16 - Annual meeting and election of officers.
