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was the visit of the vice president Cheney earlier this month. He was joined by his staff. But he was
accompanied, earlier and later by senators. A couple of senators from the United States visited: senator Lugar,
senator Lieberman, senator Graham, as well as our assistant secretary of state Dan Fried, ambassador Fried,
who was here for bilateral discussions with the Ukrainian government. This attention to Ukraine from the U.S.
Government is an indication of the importance that we place on democracy and the territorial integrity, the
independence and the sovereignty of Ukraine. We wanted to come, the vice president in particular wanted to
come, just after the invasion of Georgia to demonstrate the U.S. Government support for Azerbaijan, for
Georgia, and for Ukraine. He visited all three of these countries on that trip with the same message: we care
about your sovereignty, we care about your independence we care about your territorial integrity. This was very
important. I think it's also an indication of how important Ukraine is to the United States that the president of the
United States and the vice president of the United States and the national security advisor, three senators, and
assistant secretary all come here within the past four - five months. We care about this country and our senior
leadership is eager to show that.

I mentioned that there had been a humanitarian disaster. Of course, in the end of July, hit the south-west
part of this country very badly. Thirty six people died. Much damage, many people out of homes, a lot of
humanitarian stress, people without food, without electricity, cut off from the rest of civilization by these
floods that damaged the roads and bridges. The United States government, as well as many governments around
the world, as well as the central government here in Ukraine, have moved a lot to bring humanitarian
assistance. We've provided an initial 50,000 dollars right away, we provided another million dollars worth of
humanitarian assistance. American businesses have contributed another million dollars both in kind and in
cash to try and help the victims of these floods. The rebuilding continues. This will be something that we keep
our eye on. My deputy - Jim Pettit was in the region right away during the disaster, Ii was there last week to see
how the progress is going. I hope to continue and watch how the rebuilding takes place.

Last thing I'll mention is an interesting scientific endeavor that Americans and Ukrainians are doing
together. As you know, there have been many shipwrecks in the black sea. And very few of these wrecks have
been discovered, explored, identified. A U.S. Navy ship, a research vessel called the pathfinder has been in the
black sea with Ukrainians and Americans, again, working together to try to find wrecks on the bottom of the
black sea. In particular they're looking for one large important wreck, which was a hospital ship in World War II.
The name of this ship was the Armenia and on this ship were patients - soldiers who were being treated, as well
as sailors who were manning this ship. This ship has never been found. The American ship, this past summer,
has been looking for this ship and others by using sonar to try to identify wrecks on the bottom of the black sea.
And once identified, sending a small unmanned submarine to explore and see what is actually down there. They
found 36 ships, 36 wrecks, on the bottom of the black sea but they haven't yet found the Armenia. So we hope
that next summer this research ship will be back to try to find the Armenia and to bring it to the attention of the
ukrainians and the Russians, (regarding) this soviet ship.

So these are the kinds of things we're doing together. I am hoping that I can get back together with you in
another month and tell you the kind of things we're doing. Until then, thank you very much.

Посол Тейлор обговорює останні події в Україні та регіоні

Доброго дня! Я дуже радий знову бути з вами. Минуло два місяці з тих пір, як я записував
останній подкаст, і я дуже радий можливості поспілкуватися з українцями у такому форматі. Це були
насичені два місяці, новини були хороші і погані.

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