Youre the you are the 2 of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. I mean if the president of states is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine why what why wouldnt you ordinarily be involved with preparation sir we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas and in preparation for a president ial phone call that responsibility lies with and staff of the National Security council normally if there is enough sufficient time National Security staff can solicit information usually from the state department we can draw in the embassy but thats only Background Information and my understanding having never worked at the National Security council is that National Security staff write a memo to the president and none of us see that outside of the National Security staff ok so the the the charge a or the the u. S. Ambassador to the country wouldnt ordinarily be on a call with a foreign leader. Thats correct would not. And did colonel the men or anyone of
Security economic and Technical Assistance were to continue and if i had the backing of the secretary of state to implement that policy and i worried about what id heard concerning the role of Rudy Giuliani who had made several controversial statements about ukraine and u. S. Policy for the country so during my meeting with secretary pompeo on may 28th i made clear to him and the others president present that if the u. S. Policy toward ukraine changed he would not want me posted there and i could not state issued me that the policy of strong support for ukraine would continue and that he would support me in defending that policy with that understanding i agreed to go back to cave because i was appointed by the secretary but not reconfirmed by the senate my official position was sharjah fair odd interim in effect i was the acting ambassador to ukraine. I returned to cave on june 17th carrying the original copy of the letter President Trump signed the day after i met with the secretary i
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Spain is to suspend Catalonia Autonomy after the regions linda refuses to back down over declaring independence. No im Maryam Namazie in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up a Taliban Storms a military base in southern afghanistan killing at least forty three soldiers well have more on that story. Protests in pakistan after Prime Minister nawaz sharif his daughter and son in law are charged with corruption. Kurdish fighters tensions with turkey dedicating their victory in iraq to a jailed rebel leader. And his britains Prime Minister tries to break the brakes it deadlock over dinner in brussels the head of Goldman Sachs weighs in with a provocative tweet. Spains government says it will go ahead with suspending catalonians autonomy after the regions president refused to back down on independence Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will hold a Cabinet Meeting on saturday to trigger article one five five of the constitution a measure thats never been used which allows madrid to impose
Rein in north korea. This is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u. S. Calls for fairness and transparency the saudi arabia carries out its anticorruption drive. Sexual harassment scandals ministerial slip ups and stalled breaks it talks whats next for britons in battle government. And hash tag two hundred eighty characters why twitter is doubling its one hundred forty character limit and what it means for the social media platform. U. S. President donald trump has just arrived in beijing with a message for chinas president xi jinping get tough on north korea earlier trump gave a speech in seoul where he called out china and russia by name to put pressure on pyongyang the president also called on north korea not to underestimate the u. S. Well earlier in his address to south Koreas National Assembly trump emphasized u. S. Resolve against north korea today i hope i speak not only for our countries but for all civilized nations when i say to the north do not underestimate us and