The committee will come to order. I want to thank senator leahy for being such a good partner in this endeavor. Our hearing today is on russias policies on specific european nations. One thing we have in common with all these countries, they are young struggling democracies and friends of the United States. Out of respect for your family, i will not pronounce any of your names. I will try to get your country right. And you have an opportunity when you speak to tell us who you are. Anyway, we have the foreign minister from the ukraine, ambassador from poland, ambassador from georgia, ambassador from lithuania and ambassador from estonia. I have met most of you on my travels. I cant thank you enough for coming today and sharing with the committee and really the American People what is going on in your backyard because you live in a very difficult neighborhood. I would like to welcome to the Committee Senators rubio and van holland. Hopefully we can do things together good for the country
The committee will come to order. I want to thank senator leahy for being such a good partner in this endeavor. Our hearing today is on russias policies on specific european nations. One thing we have in common with all these countries, they are young struggling democracies and friends of the United States. Out of respect for your family, i will not pronounce any of your names. I will try to get your country right. And you have an opportunity when you speak to tell us who you are. Anyway, we have the foreign minister from the ukraine, ambassador from poland, ambassador from georgia, ambassador from lithuania and ambassador from estonia. I have met most of you on my travels. I cant thank you enough for coming today and sharing with the committee and really the American People what is going on in your backyard because you live in a very difficult neighborhood. I would like to welcome to the Committee Senators rubio and van holland. Hopefully we can do things together good for the country