Please grab a seat, we were going to start. Good morning and welcome too, im the senior fellow at gmf and i direct the frontline of Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister european and the integration and its great to have you here, you had an incredibly busy schedule over the last couple of days and very successful meetings on capitol hill in the Trump Administration, its a busy time for you and is busy in washington all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you. This is incredibly important time for you to be here in washington and in some sense the zelensky government took Office Offspring and is been in office for six months and since the beginning of september it is been an incredibly busy time for the new laws being passed and a focus on anticorruption and also this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that the normandy meeting took place with president zelensk
[inaudible conversations] please grab a seat, we were going to start. Good morning and welcome too, im the senior fellow at gmf and i direct the frontline of Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister european and the integration and its great to have you here, you had an incredibly busy schedule over the last couple of days and very successful meetings on capitol hill in the Trump Administration, its a busy time for you and is busy in washington all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you. This is incredibly important time for you to be here in washington and in some sense the zelensky government took Office Offspring and is been in office for six months and since the beginning of september it is been an incredibly busy time for the new laws being passed and a focus on anticorruption and also this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that the normandy meeting took pl
Were going to start. Good morning, and welcome to the German Marshall Fund of the United States. , am thus in your fellow at gmf frontlineect gmfs for Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister for european and euro atlantic integration. It is great to have you here. I know you have had a busy schedule the last couple of days, very successful meetings both in capitol hill but also with the Trump Administration. Its a busy time for you. Of course it is fairly busy in washington all the way across town, with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you here. Needless to say, this is an incredibly important time for you to be here. In some sense, the zelenskiy government, he took office last ring, has been in office now for rada inhs, and a new place since the beginning of september. It has been an incredibly busy time. You laws passed, a focus on anticorruption, and also just this week, it is hard to believe it w
Ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. It is just under 2. 5 hours. [crowd noise] the committee will come to order. Thank you for attending today. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on important position. The nominee today is John Jay Sullivan to be the u. S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. We have two distinguished colleagues of ours. We will allow them to proceed with introductions. I will postpone my opening statement. I asked the Ranking Member to do likewise. Until the nominees have been introduced. We are glad to be joined today by senators dan sullivan of alaska and ben cardin of maryland. Sullivanand senator has drawn the straw to go first. Thank you very much. Its an honor to be before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee again on behalf of my friend John Sullivan. To beport his nomination the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related. Although i oc
Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe