Ukrainian Embassy in Washington hosted a meeting of the US-Ukraine Business Council’s members with Ukrainian Parliamentarians
Ambassador of Ukraine
to the USA Valeriy Chaly hosted
a meeting of the US-Ukraine Business Council’s members with Ukrainian Parliamentarians. In particular, Artur Gerasymov, Iurii Artemenko, Anton Herashchenko, Oleh Kryshyn, Andrii Shypko, Yurii Solovei,
Maksym Yefimov and Oksana Yurynets
took part in the event
and participated in the frank
and open discussion with representatives of the US Government, business and expert
community.
In his remarks
the Ambassador underlined current level of mutually
beneficial cooperation with the leading
American companies and expressed his
confidence that further reform implementation in Ukraine will create
even better business environment for foreign investors.
Members of the Rada informed about
the importance of ongoing judicial
reform in Ukraine, further strengthening of the rule of
law and anticorruption
efforts, that will have direct
influence on business climate in Ukraine. Special
attention was paid to recently
implemented reforms, including adoption of the law
on privatization, that creates new
opportunity for doing business in Ukraine. In
a further discussion, an issue of
the Nord Stream II project was raised as
a clearly geopolitical tool that Kremlin
is trying to use to
divide Europe and increase its
dependence from Russian energy resources.
USUBC President Morgan Williams stressed, that American companies see Ukraine as
a promising market and ready for
further development of cooperation with our country.
At the same
time, he noted that additional
progress in business climate improvement will bring new US companies
to Ukraine with new investments
and new technologies.
Ambassador Valeriy Chaly
stressed on the importance of joint coordinated
efforts of the Government and Verkhovna Rada
to implement ambitious reform’s agenda in Ukraine
that will benefit all people
of our country
and create new business opportunities
for US-Ukraine cooperation.