Quotable notes

"President [Leonid] Kuchma made clear to me during our nearly two-hour meeting last month that he sees the Bush administration as giving little thought, good or bad, to Ukraine, except to repeat what it hears from Russia. The suspicion within the political opposition is that Ukraine's contribution to the coalition in Iraq was intended to buy amnesty from the United States. This cannot be true, but the perception discourages government opponents."

- Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. secretary of state in 1997-2001, writing in the March 8 issue of The New York Times, as cited by RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, March 14, 2004, No. 11, Vol. LXXII

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