Projects
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Washington, DC
June 22, 2010 [Remarks Available]
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
September 13-14, 2010 [Revamped]
Washington, DC
October 20–21, 2010
New York City
November 17, 2010
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The US-Ukraine “Working Group”
During 2008, CUSUR made the establishment of its envisioned “analytic sectors” [Economic, Humanitarian, Diplomatic and Security] a priority; in 2009, it took steps to provide "institutional wherewithal" to the project— |
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The Journal of Ukrainian Affairs
The Center spent much time and effort on a number of 'publishing' projects in 2009. It can proudly claim that it has completed 'infrastructure' work on its website; |
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The US-UA Leadership Summit
The US-UA Leadership Summit is intended as a high powered NGO supplement to the government to government discussions that are scheduled to take place periodically under the agreements reached thru the 'Charter on a Strategic Partnership'—signed by the US and Ukrainian foreign affairs establishments in December 2008 and reconfirmed during UA MFA Poroshenko's visit with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in November 2009. |
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About Us
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CUSUR—How It All Started
A decade ago, Ukraine and the United States began an exchange of increasingly strong signals intimating that their ties should be closer—that, in fact, their relationship should ultimately take on strategic coloration. In December 1999, both the executive and the legislative branches of Ukraine's government—the Presidential Administration and the Verkhovna Rada—took clear steps to indicate a serious interest in pursuing a course of 'eventual integration into the structures of the Euro-Atlantic world'. Their 'message' was answered by Secretary of State Madeline Albright during a speech delivered at Johns Hopkins University in January 2000 in which she named Ukraine as one of the four key countries with whom the US had to deepen bilateral economic and security relations. In short order, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk responded with an energetic embrace of Secretary Albright's position and proceeded to append a dimension to the envisioned links—coordinated responses to diplomatic issues of common concern. In June 2000, President Clinton, during his final visit to Kyiv, raised the 'engagement' bar significantly higher by referring to US-Ukrainian relations as a 'strategic partnership'. The Ukrainian leadership lost no time replying; it wholeheartedly endorsed the assessment. President Bush's inaugural trip to Europe in June 2001, and particularly his visit to Warsaw, yielded one more message on the subject, possessing what might be characterized as 'critical mass'. The newly elected American leader expressed a clear desire to retain the term 'strategic partnership' to describe the relationship between the United States and Ukraine, emphatically underscoring the bipartisan nature of US support for Ukraine's "Western" geopolitical aspirations. |
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CUSUR—What It Intends To Do
The Center for US-Ukrainian Relations (CUSUR) has been designed to provide a set of "informational platforms" or venues for senior-level representatives of the political, economic, security and diplomatic establishments of the United States and Ukraine to exchange views on a wide range of issues of mutual interest and to showcase what has been referred to as a "burgeoning relationship of notable geopolitical import" between the two nations.
Five such "platforms", the UA Quest Roundtable Series, the UA Historical Encounters Series, the US-UA Security Dialogue Series, the UA-US Business Networking Forum Series and the US-UA Energy Dialogue Series—planned as annual events, intend to review everything from joint operations by US and Ukrainian armed forces to the creation of "bilateral strategic plans for energy diversification".
The Center also hopes to track the progress of Ukraine's broader professed "Euro-Atlantic" ambitions—or, more precisely, monitor the pace of Ukraine's NATO and EU accession process, though obviously in the context of the stated US-Ukrainian partnership. To facilitate the tracking, the Center intends to run a sixth conference series, to be held in various Ukrainian cities and at various European venues, entitled Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic Future.
To widen the base of information dissemination, the Center intends to distribute the complete & annotated proceedings of the various symposia that the institution will organize as well as publish a projected bi-annual "Journal of Ukrainian Affairs".
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A. Administrative Sector B. Analytic Sector [The "US-UA Working Group"] C. Program Development Sector
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A. Board of Directors B. Board of Advisors/United States C. Board of Advisors/UkraineD. Chiefs of Bureau E. Senior FellowF. CUSUR Webmaster |
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UA Quest Steering Committees |
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A Word about the UA Quest RT Steering Committees
UA Quest Roundtable Steering Committees have served as and remain a core component of the CUSUR organizational process.
A roll call of the past and present members of the various said Steering Committees follows: |
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A Special Word about UCIS
The Ukrainian Central Information Service served as an "administrative midwife" in the creation of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations and the various fora that the latter has been tasked to run. Any history of the Center must therefore begin with a short synopsis of the said organization.
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