Speaking of Ukraine...

Ukraine figured in major address of both President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright on January 19. Following are quotations from both speeches.

• From President Clinton's State of the Union address delivered on January 19:
  
  "We must expand our work with Russia, Ukraine and the other former Soviet nations to safeguard nuclear materials and technology so they never fall into the wrong hands. My balanced budget will increase funding for these critical efforts by almost two-thirds over the next five years."
  
  
• From Secretary of State Albright's remarks before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on January 19:
  
  "Unfortunately, many new democracies are fragile and their people only partly free. As our own history attests, building true democracy is hard and slow. We must forge a community of democratic nations that will support each other, learn from each other, and work together to defend freedom where it exists and promote it where it does not. And we must prepare for critical tests of democracy this year in important nations such as Colombia, Indonesia, Nigeria and Ukraine."

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 24, 1999, No. 4, Vol. LXVII

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