[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18539-18540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          RECOGNIZING UKRAINE

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to welcome to Washington the deputy 
chief of staff to President Poroshenko of the Ukraine, General Andriy 
Taranov, who has joined us today in this hall in our gallery, and is 
accompanied by the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, Valeriy 
Chaly.
  Ambassador Chaly was with me in Los Angeles last weekend where he was 
there for the commemoration in remembrance of the catastrophic 
Holodomor disaster and atrocity of 1932-1933, in which Stalin killed 
millions of Ukrainians. But Stalin failed in his ultimate goal. An 
independent Ukraine today stands in resistance to aggregation from 
Moscow.
  I would also like to recognize in our gallery, a Ukrainian-American 
innovator, Igor Pasternak. His company, Aeros, is the first American 
firm to provide the Ukrainian Government with the military equipment 
necessary to defend its sovereignty.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues and the administration to redouble 
their efforts to help Ukraine protect its sovereignty by providing 
Ukraine with the necessary assistance to protect her freedom.
  The United States stands with the people and government of Ukraine as 
they resist aggression once again now in the 21st century.
  If you free Ukraine and it maintains its territorial integrity, it is 
in America's interest. It is, therefore, imperative that Ukraine has a 
strong and secure border.
  That is why I am pleased to be joined by our guests here today and 
look forward to working with the Ukrainian

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Government to preserve Ukrainian freedom and am proud that it is a 
company from Los Angeles that is the first and, unfortunately, as of 
yet, the only company to provide the Ukrainian Government with the 
military equipment it needs.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Westerman). The Chair will remind 
Members that the rules do not allow references to occupants of the 
gallery.

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